Farmers for special agri policy
Disappointed with the alleged inaction of the authorities concerned to harness the horticulture potential of the region, the agri farmers today appealed to the Centre to formulate a special policy
Disappointed with the alleged inaction of the authorities concerned to harness the horticulture potential of the region, the agri farmers today appealed to the Centre to formulate a special policy
The Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan has in compliance with the president's directives offered a special relief package to farmers in the calamity-hit localities.This was stated by ADBP
The Pakistan government will provide subsidy of Rs 1.5 billion to Punjab and Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Supplies Corporation (Passco) for export of wheat during next fiscal as compared to Rs
For a long time the wheat fields of northern India have been infected by Phalaris minor, commonly known as gulli-danda or mandoosi, wild oat and broad leaf weeds, which lowered wheat yields by 30 to
In about 75 villagers in Medak district, Karnataka, there are at least 1,500 farmers, most of them Dalits, who have their own see banks with enough seeds to cultivate more than 20,000 acres. They
The only ones who left the UN World Food Summit with their plates full were the Americans, who dominate the biotech industry. The US delegation successfully sold the idea that the solution to global
The Centre approved the National Seeds Policy 2002, paving the way for planned development of seeds sector. The move is aimed at hiking the percentage of India's share in global seed trade to at
The rich countries of the world spend close to a billion dollars a day, subsidising their farmers. Yet they are unwilling to fork our less than 10 per cent of this sum, in order to reduce by half the
The Madhya Pradesh Corporatives Minister Dr Govind Singh has said that to give advantage to agriculture seed production and to minimise the shortage of seeds, Farmers Seed Cooperatives Committees
The US issued its clearest warning yet that it may take legal action in the World Trade Organisation against the European Union for the EU's refusal to approve new genetically modified crops.
The president of Sindh Abadgar Board, Abdul Majeed Nizamani, (Pakistan) has termed the national budget an enemy of agriculture and said that no relief was offered to the farmers of Sindh though they
A Gujramwala district (Pakistan) agricultural advisory committee will lend Rs34 million to farmers for paddy crop by June 30. It was announced at a meeting presided over by district coordination
Advances in agricultural biotechnology have created opportunities for efficient crop improvement. But this process also requires caution to prevent unforeseen problems associated with the adopting of
European Union foreign ministers last night agreed to postpone the controversial issue of negotiating farm subsidies with the 10 candidate countries, which hope to conclude enlargement negotiations
An Australian state government in a key canola-producing region said it plans to introduce legislation which rules out the establishment of exclusion zones for genetically modified (GM) crops. A
Genetic engineering or recombinant DNA technology, we are told, has great potential to influence and benefit agriculture including livestock, forestry and fisheries. If true, it must seem to
The agro division of Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (CPL) has launched a bio-fertiliser-cum-bio-fungicide under the brand name Kalisena. The new fertiliser-cum-bio-fungicide from the CPL stable is
The recent memorandum of undertaking that the West Bangal State Food Processing and Horticulture Development Corporation (WBSFPHDC) has signed recently in a joint venture agreement with Bejo Sheetal
The farm ministry's pet project for forecasting crop production through satellite studies and land-based observations, FASAL, is unlikely to take off for another year although the government had put
Indian Council or Agricultural Research (ICAR) will be able to release some superior varieties of Bt varietal cotton and Bt hybrid cotton developed by its own scientists, within a period of three