Tougher GM food stance risks US pique
An influential European Parliament committee voted to toughen proposed rules on the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. The vote marks the crucial first stage through the European union's
An influential European Parliament committee voted to toughen proposed rules on the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. The vote marks the crucial first stage through the European union's
The Union Cabinet's recent decision to join the international Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has drawn flak from environmentalists for repealing farmers' rights granted by
The Union Cabinet's decision on May 31 to join the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) is incompatible with the recently enacted Plant Variety Protection (PVP)
A team of entomologists of Haryana Agricultural University after a survey of farms in Hisar and Hansi areas has told farmers to take measures necessary to control American bollworm. the members of
The next days will see eco-warriors in the country coming out strongly against India's commercial adoption of Bt cotton. Their weapon will be the results of a report released by the China-based
The world's public seed banks are starved for cash and need an injection from donors of $260 million to protect crop varieties and aid the war on hunger, a leading plant geneticist said. About 1,300
Guatemalan environmental activists slammed the United Nations this week for distributing genetically engineered corn to drought-hit peasants in the Central American nation through its World Food
A leading scientist warned that hysteria over genetic modification was clouding the issue and hindering serious debate. Patrick Bateson, vice-president of the Royal Society, said that he saw "no
European buyers are interested in soymeal free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) but balk at paying higher prices for the full certification process, industry sources said. Supermarket chains
A total of 182 countries have committed to reduce the number of hungry people by 2015, according to the final declaration of the World Food Summit. Heads of state and governments approved the
China is enlisting armies of ducks to prevent a plague of locusts engulfing swathes of valuable crop land. The birds will probably end up in restaurant. The Manasi locust station in the northwest is
Coffee growers who want to boost their crop for free should hire an army of willing, unpaid volunteers: the bee. The US scientist, Mr. David Roubik, of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has
The U.N. World Food Summit wrapped up on Thursday much where it began, with criticism about the proliferation of bio-tech crops and complaints that too little has been done to end world hunger. "Lets
German investigators launched a massive new search to trace produce from hundreds of farms that have used non-organic animal feed tainted with a carcinogenic herbicide. This is the second such search
West Bengal state agriculture minister Kamal Guha will submit an alternative farm policy though the Cabinet was to have ratified a new one on June 27. "The new policy needs a rethink, especially on
The government has decided to dispatch four rakes of foodgrains per day to the North-East states for one month for augmenting the stocks in that region. An assurance to this effect was given by the
Twenty farmers committed suicide in Punjab during from 1997 to 2002 due to poor financial position, huge bank loans and domestic problems, PWD minister Partap Singh Bajwa said at the State assembly
Implementation of power reform by the Andhra Pradesh government, particularly in the agriculture sector, is hitting the farmers who are already grappling with poor retaliation and crop failures very
The Farmers Associates of Pakistan has rejected new cotton policy announced by the federal commerce minister terming it "irrelevant to new realities". FAP chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi told newsmen
Less than one month after President Bush signed the new farm bill, agriculture has leaped from the backwaters of diplomacy to near the top of the list of international complaints against the United