China GMO cotton bad for environment - Greenpeace
Transgenic Chinese cotton, developed by U.S. biotech giant Monsanto , is bad for the environment because it encourages the continued use of pesticides, environmental group Greenpeace said yesterday.
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Bt cotton harming environment, say Chinese scientists
Chinese scientists have found out the GM crops are damaging the environment. The Bacillus thurengenis (Bt) transgenic cotton, which makes up 35 per cent of China's crop, is damaging environment
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Green activist promotes organic farming in hills
Pandurang Hedge, a founding activist and a leader of the Appiko Movement has been working in five hill districts of Karnataka, giving a thrust to environment conservation. He has presently focussed
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A note of caution
The latest report on Bt cotton provides some food for thought. Coming from China, the place which has often been quoted for its success stories with the genetically modified cotton, it should serve
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This monsoon, coming to a field near you: Super Rice
As world leaders gather for the Food Summit in Rome this week to see how they can halve hunger by 2015, India has reason to celebrate. Not only because it's long met its targets. But also monsoon
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End hunger, nations urged
Against the backdrop of possible female in southern Africa and debate over genetically modified foods, delegates at the U.N. World Food Summit called on Monday for governments to make good on pledges
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A world of hunger
It is a measure of the little importance the world gives to malnutrition that a global summit to discuss ways to reduce hunger has opened in Rome with poor participation by heads of government. The
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UN to feed N Korea
The UN World Food Programme said on Monday it will resume distributing food to more than 1 million children, women and elderly people in North Korea after receiving a new promise of aid fro the
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Farmers told to save cotton crop from pests
Scientists of Haryana Agricultural University have advised cotton growers to take timely steps to save their crops from pests. A press note issued by the Department of Entomology said that a sporadic
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Farmers on warpath
The stand-off between the Haryana unit of Bharatiya Kisan Union and the state government has turned into a double or quits game between BKU supremo Ghasiram Nain and chief Minister Om Prakash
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OECD farm policies and world agricultural markets
The US has come out with a Farm Bill that puts paid to any meaningful reform of its farm sector. The developments in the US and Europe would be a blow to the efforts now underway to whittle down
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Food -for-greening programme proposed
Based on the experience of using surplus food stock for developmental purposes through food-for-work programmes, the Centre now poses to use foodgrains for environment conservation through
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No more Basmati Hijacks
Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) in Mysore is filing for patents in India and abroad. The provocation, of course, was the famous row over Basmati rice. Finally it wakes up to the
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Space power
For the first time, the state will have an agricultural research centre in the private sector. Called the 'Gandhiji Institute of Sustainable Development', it is the brainchild of P.J. Joseph, a
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Locust plague strikes China
China's ministry of agriculture has called for an urgent fight against a locust plague with the infested areas covering 10 per cent larger than that of last year, a Xinhua report said
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West's food subsidies 'hit African farmers'
President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria warned that state subsidies to farmers in the developed world were undermining food security in Africa. Southern Africa is suffering from severe food shortages.
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Biotech controversy ensnares US food donations
As the United States and Europe fight over the future of genetically modified foods, poor countries needing donations of corn and soybeans are increasingly finding themselves in the backwash of the
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Sowing seeds of doubt
The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the department of environment and forests has approved the marketing of Mahyco/Monsanto BT cotton seeds earlier this year. Doubts and
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India signs treaty on plant genetic resources
India has signed the International Treaty on Plan Genetic Resources for food and Agriculture. The treaty was signed by Mr Ajit Singh at the World Food Summit in Rome yesterday, paving the way for
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Practise latest farming methods, CM tells ryots
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday called upon farmer to achieve high yield with low investment and referred to farmers in China in this