'Chinese agro-tools can enhance productivity'
Agriculturists and concerned engineers have stressed that the Chinese hand tractors and other modern agricultural equipment can play a revolutionary role in the development of the agriculture sector
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Compensation yet to reach farmers
The compensation awarded by the Loss of Ecology (Prevention and Payment of Compensation) Authority as per the Supreme Court order was yet to be disbursed to the farmers affected by tannery pollution
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Bank sanctions Rs 2.5 cr loans for farmers
The Board of Directors of the Himachal Pradesh Cooperative, Agriculture and Rural Development Bank sanctioned loans worth Rs 2.50 crore to 214 farmers and orchardists of the state. Mr Baldev Sharma,
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Revitalise technology
A furore has been create over the decision of the Genetic engineering approval committee, to order the destruction of Bt cotton which was found to have been grown illegally in the state of Gujarat.
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Mahendra Singh flays Centre's anti-farmer policy
Minister for Agriculture, Mahendra Singh has drawn the attention of Union Minister for Agriculture Ajit Singh towards the Centre's anti-farmer cotton policy by saying that Maharashtra is not
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Industrialists prefer imported cotton
Deep in debt, cotton growers of Punjab had never faced such a bad time. First, they suffered huge losses due to damage caused by American bollworm to cotton crop and now they were suffering further
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Swiss reject bid for open-air GMO wheat test
A Swiss government agency has rejected a request by researchers to conduct controlled open-air tests of genetically modified wheat for fear of the study's potential damage to the environment,
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Agro-clinics planned to help farmers
Leading corporate analysts and academic experts specialising in the agricultural sector have formed the Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) with the objective of building a network of
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Centre sends team to tackle Bt cotton crisis in Gujarat
The centre sent a high-level team to Gujarat to prevent further flow of the genetically engineered Bt cotton crop into commercial centres and ensure ints quick procurement. a two member team has been
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Govt to pursue Bt cotton crop case
Having accepted the fact that it may not be able to retrieve "most" of the transgenic cotton grown unauthorisedly over 11,000 acres in Gujarat, the Union Environment Ministry has sent two officers to
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Salt of the earth
In a Bangkok lab, rice seedlings are growing in salty water. Next step:making it work in the
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Bt Cotton firm seeks more time for appeal
Navabharat Seeds, accused of supplying genetically engineered Bt Cotton to farmers in Gujarat, has sought a week's time from the Delhi High Court to file an amended petition against the order on the
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UK organic group calls for more money from government
Britain must pump more money into organic farming to help restore lagging consumer confidence in the food sector and make Britain more competitive in Europe, a leading organic group said yesterday.
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Parry Agro eyes Chinese order for green technology
Parry Agro Industries Ltd, a part of the Rs 3,900 crore south-based Murugappa group, today announced that it had developed a third millennium eco technology for soil, crops and forest management,
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India's 50% land facing degradation
Nearly 50 per cent of the country's land is facing the menace of degradation through processes like wind and water erosion, water logging salinity, coastal erosion etc. With the population continuing
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Brussels urges PM to encourage modified crops
Tony Blair the prime minister was urged by the European Commission to do more to encourage the cultivation of genetically modified crops in Britain. Frits Bolkestein, the internal market
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Central team fails to meet officials
The controversy over the cultivation of genetically modified Bt Cotton in Gujarat without proper authorisation has taken a new turn with the Central team which had gone to Gujarat a couple of days
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Farming success
Mahindra agri-services increase paddy production.A project it launched last year, Mahindra Shubh Labh Services Ltd. (MSSL), is behind the stunning success story of Vadipettai.MSSL's outlet, Mahindra
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Coconut husk can be a soil substitute
Mehrauli based food processing company Sterling Farms Research and Sefices Private limited has come up with a unique item in the ongoing Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan. This item is a soil substitute,
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CM calls on meet on cotton scheme
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has convened an all party meeting to persuade the Centre to ease banking norms to the state cooperative banks so as to facilitate financing of the