EU aims to shift focus of farm aid
The European Union is to introduce proposals for an overhaul of the region's 40 year old Common Agricultural Policy that would sever the traditional link between aid from Brussels and what farmers
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EU farm reform to make spending efficient-Fischler
EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler said radical proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), due to be launched , would make the bloc's farm spending more efficient. "There will be some
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Breakthrough by GAU in extracting oil from plants
Gujart Agriclutural University (GAU) has achieved a major breakthrough in experiments conducted to extract oil from two plants known as Simarouba and Ramtal grown in the hilly terrain of South
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Bt cotton: Farmers in a biological trap laid by State Govt., says expert
The Karnataka State Government's decision to go in for Bt cotton cultivation on an experimental basis will lead to serious problems as there is no mechanism to control the escape of genes from the Bt
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Mystery disease hits palms in Mandya district
Even as coconut farmers in Karnataka are searching for alternative crop amid a raging mite menace with dubious remedies being pushed to check it, a mysterious diseases has struck thousands of coconut
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Land reform in Russia
The Russian attachment to land is so deep and visceral that efforts to sell off decaying collective farms unsettle even those who understand that the country would work far better with a private
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Fischler faces battle to convince colleagues of farms plan
An ambitious overhaul of European farming policy will be unveiled and it represents a last chance for its architect, Franc Fischler, to leave his mark as a major reformer. The plan produced by the
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Europe's mid-term test
Anyone still hoping for stringent cuts in Europe's Euro 40bn farm subsidies in the near future will be disappointed. But Franc Fischier's review, to be approved by the European Commission still
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EU's agricultural plan focuses on Food safety
Plans to reorganize the European Union's euro 40 billion ($39.78 billion) a year farm subsidy system face improved prospects of success because of growing public concerns about food safety and the
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Sen panel may present grain policy today
The high level committee headed by Prof Abhijit Sen to coin a long term grain policy is likely to its report to the food ministry. Prof Sen, who submitted his interim report is understood to have
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Agri clinics set to offer counseling to farmers
Marking an advancement in the field of farm counseling, the 15 southern districts of the State coming under University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bangalore, will soon have "private" agri clinics
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Cattle population in 'dairy belt' may be wiped out
The foot-and-mouth disease has assumed dimension of an epidemic threatening to wipe out cattle population in this entire region, and conventional vaccination to check its spread has proved futile.
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The EU's fudge
It is too early to say just how much of the European Union overhaul of its $43 billion farm subsidies policy will finally be implemented. EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler's ambiious
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EU splits over farm subsidies reform plan
The battle lines were drawn over EU plans reform its 40-year old system of costly and protectionist agricultural subsidies, with Brussels facing a tough fight to push its proposals through. The man
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Corporate farming cast away
Leaders of small growers, tenants and right activists cast away the Pakistan government initiative of the Corporate Agriculture Farming (CAF) here at a media seminar. The seminar was organized by the
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ICAR sitting on pro-biotic fertiliser plan since 1998
When the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission asks you to conduct an experiment, you are expected to go out of your way and complete it. But not if the one asked to do the task is the Indian
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Israeli tech for agri project in RR district
Israeli technology, which created waves in Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's Kuppam Assembly constituency in Chittoor district, will now be used for an agricultural project in Ranga Reddy district
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EU upsets biotech industry
The European Commission's proposals to promote more environmentally proposals to promote more environmentally friendly farming, scheduled to beunveiled in the U.S. , make no reference to genetically
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European commission unveils farm-subsidy reform package
The European Union proposed a major overhaul of its 44 billion euro farm subsidies policy to force farmers to be more efficient and pay greater attention to the environment, public health and food
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Biotech crops environmentally safe, according to study
A leading private research institute in the United States says that biotechnology-derived soybeans maize (corn) and cotton yield environmental benefits and pose no more environmental concerns that