USA to produce BT cotton in two years
University of agriculture sciences, Sharwad could well be on its way to producing transgenic varieties of cotton. Trials are underway in Karnataka, according to Karnataka's agriculture minister Me T
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McKinsey cue on agro-business
McKinsey, the international consultant firm, submitted an interim report to the West Bengal government marking 11 sectors where agricultural business can flourish in West Bengal. The firm also said
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House backs bill raising aid to farms
The U.S. Senate has easily approved a six year farm bill that would increase subsidies to farmers by $31 billion, overcoming arguments that it is too costly and threatens trade relations with key
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British cultivators take to zodiac farming
British farmers are winning government grants to help the to convert to a mystical form of agriculture that requires crops to be planted in line with the movements of the moon.
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Conserving traditional crops
Cultivation of traditional crops by farmers in Uttaranchal has been encouraged under a programme being conducted by the National Bureau of Plant Genetic
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Impetus to crop diversification
The Punjab Government has started taking a keen interest in development, giving aid to police officials facing trials and crop diversification in a big way to put the economy of state back on rails
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Farm folly
Move over, European Union. Washington has just created a new contender for the dubious prize of the world's worst and most damaging agricultural policy. Indeed, it is tempting to conclude that the
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Two nations, two agricultures
Farm subsidies in the US are the equivalent of Rs 18 lakh per farm per year, while an Indian farmer would be delighted with Rs 18,000. The US switched to the policy of farm support after the Great
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Boost to organic farming
Special steps are being taken by the Madhya Pradesh Government to promote organic farming by handpicking villages and training the villagers to use organic manure in their fields across the state.
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Rs. 735 crore aid for agro-processing
The National Co-operative Development Corporation will provide an assistance of Rs 735 crore in 2002-03 for the development of agro-processing sector and other Co-operative enterprises, especially
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GM food, WTO and Sri Lanka
In April 2001, the Sri Lanka Health Department, on the advice of its Food Advisory Committee, gazetted restrictions on the importation of genetically modified (GM) foods. Twenty-one products
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Who really pays to help farmers?
Of all the problems the plague the world's poor in the age of globalization, few are so widely condemned as the subsidies that rich countries provide their farmers. Poor nations suffer because their
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UN asks for $28 million food aid for poor Afghans
The UN World Food Programme appealed on Thursday for $28 million in urgent food aid to help millions of Afghans once again threatened by a new hunger crisis. Mr. Burke Oberle, the WFP Afghanistan
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Coconut trees hit, botched mite treatment suspended
The Karnataka State Government on Thursday suspended its programme of injecting pesticides on mite-affected coconut trees after a shocking finding that lakhs of coconut trees were badly hit by
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New threat: Biblical plague of locusts
A plague of locusts of "almost biblical proportions" is threatening Afghanistan, a country wrecked by years of fighting, drought and food shortages, a senior international and official said on
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Apeda identifies pests in Chinese apples
The directorate of plant protection under the department of agriculture has identified potential pests in apples imported from China for imposing import restrictions. The Agricultural and Processed
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Protein-rich potato hybrid
In a path-breaking endeavour, scientists from the Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, and the National Centre for Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, have developed potato hybrids with a highly
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PAU sings a different tune on Bt cotton, says it's not a panacea
The Punjab Agricultural University(PAU) has now changed its tune on Bt Cotton. the experts who made a vehement case for Bt Cotton in a press meeting held on March 22 much before the genetic
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55,000 deserving people to get food items every month
About 55,000 deserving people of Thatta district (Pakistan) will get flour, cooking oil, pulses and other food items every month under the Government Food Support Programme. This was disclosed by the
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Drought cost Rs 40 billion to Sindh agro-economy
There are no two opinions about the negative impact of long dry spell and water shortage on agro-economy of the Sindh province,Dawn where during the past three years agriculture production losses