Grain bank chain to feed hungry millions
The Centre has cleared the decks for a community grain bank in Orissa to help mitigate people's distress and suffering in its 'hot spots of endemic and transient hunger. The pilot project, approved
The Centre has cleared the decks for a community grain bank in Orissa to help mitigate people's distress and suffering in its 'hot spots of endemic and transient hunger. The pilot project, approved
Future food crises in south Asia could be reduced in scale following the successful adoption of new farming techniques in the 'bread basket' regions of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, leading
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday it would renew the registration of genetically-altered cotton and ordered seed makers to monitor any long-term effects on other plants and
The Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) in Hyderabad proposes to set up an international group that would globally coordinate the research work on the development of the Ongole breed
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has renewed its conditional license for a genetically engineered strain of cotton which produces its own insecticide.
The U.S. grain industry is still on the lookout for gene-modified StarLink corn, one year after the unapproved variety entered the food chain and disrupted exports.
India's stand at the WTO mini-ministerial conference to be held in Singapore from October 13 to 14 is expected to be finalised after assessing the outcome of the deliberations of the special session
The U.S. House of Representatives defeated yesterday the major challenge to a $73 billion overhaul of the U.S. farm program, rejecting a proposal to shift money from crop subsidies to conservation.
So-called "low-till" farming, which does away with intensive and repeated ploughing of farmers' fields, is increasing harvests, reducing water use by as much as 30 to 50% in a region often scarred by
The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) in the Ministry of Environment has been shaken by the revelation that a genetically-modified (GM) variety of cotton is being grown in some of 10,000
At least 12 heads of cattle perished after they consumed water, suspected to be poisonous, from a pond in Mansarover area which had been sprayed with insecticide by the Jaipur Municipal Corporation
Sydney scientists have successfully selected the sex of 25 out of 26 lambs before conception by using ram sperm that had been sorted into "male" and "female"
Effective collaboration between researchers and farmers is essential to meet food requirements of over 130 million people in the country, the chairman, Pakistan Agriculture Research Council, Dr Umar
The European Union's top trade negotiator warned that the EU would not agree to launch ambitious negotiations on agriculture in anew trade round without a commitment to talks on environmental links,
The European Union could resume approving new varieties of genetically modified foods and other products early next year if members sign off on a new plan to end a three-year moratorium, EU Consumer
Developing countries must insist that agriculture is part of the next round of tariff cuts made by the World Trade Organization (WTO), Brazil's Agriculture Minister Marcus Vinicius Pratini de Moraes
Dairy farmers in Punjab and Haryana will not have to worry about the sale of milk. Nestle India and SmithKline Beecham, in partnership with Nabard, will tie up with the dairy farmers for purchase of
The European Commission has worked out a compromise to allow EU governments concerned about genetically modified (GM) crops to lift a ban on new varieties, according to documents obtained by Reuters
Farmers in Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore districts may revert to tobacco this season due to lack of water for alternative crops. These districts are currently in the grip of drought. In view of this,
Faced with rapidly shrinking landfills, the MCD plans to convert waste emanating from the Idgah abattoir into chicken feed and tallow. A rendering plant will be set up in Ghazipur, east Delhi, to