GM food : need overcomes fear in India
The Johannesburg environment and sustainable development summit - it ended today - debated the issue of genetically modified (GM) food to death. But a note put up for the Indian Cabinet - it meets
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Bt Cotton passes American Bollworm test
The preliminary reports of the BT Cotton trials being conducted jointly by the ICAR and the PAU seem to have crossed over the major hurdle of the American Bollworm attack, a major cause of concern
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Genetically modified food
A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences has helped clarify the risks posed to human health and the environment by the genetic manipulation of animals to produce food, medicines or other
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Mysore farmers protest release of Kabini water
Following the state government orders, Irrigation Department officials released 12,000 cusecs of water from Kabini reservoir, even as there was large scale protests in many places in Mysore and
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Farmers' partial rates case win may help many
The end of a two-year rates war for a Victorian farming couple could benefit thousands of other farmers after the settlement of their Supreme Court fight with the local council. Noelene and John
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Mugabe vows to crack down on white defiance
President Robert Mugabe vowed to crack down on whites in Zimbabwe who oppose his policies and have defied eviction orders to abandon their farms, state media reported. Mugabe said half of the 2900
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BINA develops 33 crop varieties for farmers
Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) has developed two salt tolerant mustard/rapeseed varieties, Binasarisha-5 and Binasarisha-6, and a sesame (til) variety, Binatil-1. The National
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Commercial farming of Lotha Salla attracts farmers
Farmers of Dolakha district (Nepal) have started cultivating Lotha Salla, a kind of pine used for preparing medicines for the treatment of cancer, on commercial basis. Farmers of this district who
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Maharashtra ends cotton purchase monopoly plan
Maharashtra ended its monopoly cotton procurement scheme and permitted private players to purchase cotton directly from farmers, However the government has empowered the Maharashtra State Cooperative
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Drought costs crops Rs 700 cr. in Himachal Pradesh
Fragmented showers, coming to the hills of Himachal Pradesh during the delayed Monsoon in August, have brought little relief to the beleaguered agriculturists and horticulturists with the gross
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Kashmir's halal order at Rs 400-cr, leather losses Rs 300-cr
Jammu & Kashmir that spends over Rs 400 cr. annually to sustain its non-vegetarian food habits loses over Rs 300-cr as it lacks proper infrastructure for a viable leather industry, a survey carried
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World Bank to lend $ 49 million for agri water project in Sindh
As part of direct lending series to provinces the World Bank will extend $ 49 million to Sindh (Pakistan) for an On-Farm Water Management Project with a total cost of $ 78 million including $ 29
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Farmers lose out on retail sales
The National Farmers' Union is launching a campaign to highlight how little farmers receive from the retail price of their food. A basket of farmed produce including beef, eggs, milk, bread, tomatoes
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GM pollution in gene bank?
Ten years ago at the Rio Earth Summit, heads of State adopted the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and wrestled with climate change strategies. World leaders recognized that the front-line
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Drought forces AP to opt for dry crop farming
Owing to severe drought conditions prevailing in the Andhra Pradesh continuously for the this year coupled with the depletion of ground water, Andhra Pradesh farmers are turning towards arid crops.
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Project to develop virus-resistant crops
The ICRISAT has announced a $5,00,000 collaborative project with the Monsanto subsidiary, MAHYCO, to develop crop varieties, which will be resistant to the tobacco streak virus and its variants. The
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Research project to tackle tobacco virus
Five agricultural institutions have agreed to undertake a collaborative research project to find a long-term sustainable solution to the tobacco streak virus (TSV) that has been causing heavy damage
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Mastitis: Expert calls for early detection
Programmes for control of Mastitis - a deadly cattle disease estimated to cause annual losses of over Rs 6,000 crore to the country's dairy sector - should focus more on prevention and detection at
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Famine reshapes food debate
The famine in southern Africa has caused some staunch opponents of generically modified food to take a second look. Thousands of tons of genetically modified food has been donated to the region,
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Newcastle disease strikes chickens
About 4,000 chickens will be destroyed at a poultry farm in Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, after some 600 other birds died in an outbreak of Newcastle disease, a highly contagious disease among birds,