US-China GMO talks
The US officials will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday to discuss China's controversial rules on genetically modified organisms (GMO) ahead of their March 20 implementation, a US embassy spokesman said
The US officials will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday to discuss China's controversial rules on genetically modified organisms (GMO) ahead of their March 20 implementation, a US embassy spokesman said
Germany will unveil a radical blueprint for overhauling the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy setting itself on a collision course with France and some Mediterranean states ahead of summer's
Agents in Brazil burned 21 tonnes of illegal genetically modified soy this week, police said as the battle over bioengineered foods heated up in Latin America's largest agricultural power. The
When Yu Chang, a farmer, in China left the land his ancestors had farmed for centuries it was not drought or locusts that drove him, but something far more calamitous: crooked officials and
Buried in the proposed farm bill is an entirely new $3 billion subsidy for peanut farmers, a 10-year entitlement of direct cash payments meant to help American peanut farmers adjust to competition
Raucous protests and a shoving match by Brazilian lawmakers debating genetically modified foods prompted a Congressional panel to delay a vote on a bill that could end a three-year-old ban on the
The Union Budget has not proposed any concrete measures for reforms in the farm sector. The announcements made seems to be of cosmetic changes. The pronouncement of three major polices like the long
The National Women Commission(NWC) after interacting with women farmers of Himachal Pradesh has decided to submit a number of recommendations of the state government for the socio economic uplift of
Agriculture Minister T B Jayachandra, Karnataka, who had discussions on issues relating to BT cotton on issues relating to BT cotton with Union Minister of State for Environment T R Balu yesterday,
The Union environment ministry's genetic engineering approval committee (GEAC), now set to meet around March 26 has only one message, loud and clear: We haven't taken a decision yet, don;t try to
Cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh are facing tough times. Reports from cotton growing areas in the state suggest that, unable to bear rising debts, as many as 50 farmers have committed suicide in and
Tamil Nadu is embarking on a large scale agriculture sector modernisatin and reform by focusing on increased productivity and production, water harvesting, wasteland development, agricultural
The Rajan Nanda controlled Escorts is in talks with two overseas companies to foray into the business of foodgrain storage and its scientific trading with an investment outlay of Rs 1000 crore.
The Integrated Fund for Agricultural Development has sanctioned a $20 million loan to the North Eastern Council for the development of five districts in the North East-West Garo Hills and West Khasi
An agreement for scientific research and exchange of information in the agricultural field will soon materialise between South Africa and Punjab. The agreement would give the Punjab state an
It has been said before but it bears reiteration. There has to be something very wrong with a society that strives to deny itself the benefits of technological progress - never mind if it renders its
The US achieved a breakthrough deal with China on genetically modified (GMO) foods in a dispute that threatened to scuttle $1 billion annual sales of US soyabeans to China, the world's top importer.
A proposal from an NRI to set up a Jojoba plantation in the Thar desert has been turned down by the centre after the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) refused diversion of the land for
China announced a temporary certification scheme for imports of bio-engineered foods following talks last week with the United States on the issue. It said foreign firms could get temporary safety
A Task Force of the Codex Alimentarius Commission has reached agreement on a final draft of 'Principles for the risk analysis of foods derived from biotechnology, the UN Food and Agriculture