Government rolls back contract farming plan
Echoing the Left Front chairman, the West Bengal government today began to water down the draft agriculture policy by dropping the recommendation for contract farming a thorny issue for most CPM
Echoing the Left Front chairman, the West Bengal government today began to water down the draft agriculture policy by dropping the recommendation for contract farming a thorny issue for most CPM
Huge piles of foodgrains rotting in the open make a pathetic sight. More so, with the fast approaching monsoon. In a country where starvation deaths are not uncommon, such waste is criminal. Neither
Franz Fishler. the European Union's farm commissioner,has taken everyone by surprise with the ambitiousness of his blueprint for reforming the controversial Common Agricultural Policy. In a draft
Leasing out of land to foreign companies for corporate farming would be subject to their registration in Pakistan under Companies Act 1984, which Food Minister Khair Muhammad Junejo believes can
Russia stepped into the unfamiliar world of private farming when the lower house of parliament, the duma, passed legislation burying the era of communist collectivisation and creating a free market
The issue of Bt cotton has had only two extremes - with NGOs at one end vehemently opposing it and the company (Monsanto) and its associates at the other aggressively promoting is. But Dr. Manju
A Greenpeace report reviewing the Chinese experience of genetically engineered Bt cotton (Bacillus thuringiensis cotton) has found adverse environmental impacts after just five years of commercial
Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet today approved the implementation of National Agriculture Insurance Scheme, Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojna in the State with immediate effect. The scheme aims at providing
Karnataka will soon get clearance for setting up three more food technology parks, apart from the two parks already sanctioned, to boost the food processing industry. The food parks were expected to
Even as they pledged yet again to feed the 800 million who go hungry every year, the heads of state and thousands of bureaucrats and politicians at the second Food Summit in Rome this week will be
European and American farmers might fear the switching off the life-support in annual subsidies would destroy their incomes and their way of life, but New Zealand fare say the sudden removal of their
Many Russian farmer managers were banished by Stalin in the 1930s, when wealthy peasants were repressed as part of a campaign to turn agricultural lands into state-owned collective farms. Today the
Five years after the UN World Food Summit promised to halve the number of hungry people by 2015, the follow-up summit ended with no significant change in the number 800 million. This is despite the
Research just published in the journal Science indicates that pollen from genetically modified (GM) mustard could carry artificially introduced genes up to 3 km away, much further than previously
Coffee, that powerful stimulant that jolts human beings from sluggishness to being wide awake first thing in the morning, appears to have exactly the reverse effect on molluscs. The findings, by the
Heading in the opposite direction of the U.S. the European Union is moving to reform its agriculture programs to stop farmers from producing mountains of surplus milk, grain and beef.
The inter--ministerial task force on agricultural marketing reforms has recommended sweeping amendments in marketing laws to allow all the private sector to operate agricultural markets, legalise
India has the capacity to become world leader in the production of wheat. India has already overtaken the USA in wheat production by crossing the 75 million tonnes mark. India is producing more wheat
The tribal farmers in Madhya Pradesh would be motivated to switch from cultivation of coarse grains to more profiting maize and niger. The agriculture department of the state is all set to embark
It is a clash between theory and practice. The theories of the agricultural scientists are being rejected by farmers, who till the land. A piquant situation, now prevailing all over north-coastal