Water crunch may hit Vietnam coffee
Vietnam's key coffee province of Daklak is facing a dry stretch during the crucial tree-watching process due to low rainfall and higher water demand, traders said on Tuesday. A report by Daklak's
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ICAC projects smallest global crop in 5 years
World cotton production for the 2002-03 season is estimated at about 19 million tonnes, down 2.5 million tonnes from last year's record and the smallest crop in five seasons, the International Cotton
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Government to reconsider import of GM food
For advocates and detractos of genetically-modified (GM) crops, there's good news and bad. The government is set to give a fresh hearing to aid agencies keen to import food which may contain GM
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Ostrich approach
Like his predecessors, Mr Jaswant Singh has chosen an ostrich like approach to the problem of food subsidy. AT Rs 27800 crore, this subsidy is now threatening to go completely out of control. And if
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Green groups say EU plan would hurt non-GM farmers
Environmental groups this week condemned a European Commission proposal which they said force organic and traditional farmers to pay to prevent their crops from mixing with genetically modified
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Australia state ban on GM canola to cost mkts - govt
A ban on growing genetically modified canola in New South Wales state would harm Australia in competitive world markets, Agriculture Minister Warren Truss said. Still, Truss acknowledged that state
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Budget's blow to agriculture
The Union Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, raised expectations when in the course of his Budget speech he said: "Agriculture, the life blood of our economy, after giving the country adequate food
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Jhajjar farmers to get relief package
The Haryana state government finally decided to provide a relief package of Rs 1.75 lakh as compensation to the farmers of the district, whose crops had been damaged in the drought during last
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Meet called to resolve problems affecting Khazan land at Rachol
The Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Margao Dipak Dessai has convened a meeting of concerned parties to take stock of the nuisance created by the stagnated waters in the khazan land at Rachol village in
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Greenpeace, govt enmeshed in Bt cotton issue
The Bt cotton story is throwing up so many twists that the government will find it difficult to wriggle out of the tangled mess. With the international environmental activist group Greenpeace
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Scaling down hunger-affected to take 15 yrs
The goal set by the United Nations 1996 food summit to halve the number of hungry people in the world by 2015 would be missed and might be achieved only fifteen years later in 2030, a United Nations
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UN backs global fund to save biodiversity
UN-backed experts aim to create an international fund to conserve the world's seed varieties and protect crop diversity from natural disasters, war and other threats, a leading plant geneticist said
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EU ban on GM foods to stay at least to October
The European Union's unofficial ban on most genetically modified (GM) foods will remain at least until October, EU officials said. A new regulatory committee, which will decide whether GM organisms
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Brussels takes hands-off stance on modified crops
The European Commission wants European Union member states to issue new rules protecting conventional and organic farming from farmers using genetically modified crops. The proposal, contained in a
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Why poor farmers in Mexico go hungry
Why poor farmers in Mexico go hungry Macario Hernandez's grandfather grew corn in the hills of Puebla, Mexico. His father does the same. Herandez growscorn, too, but not for much longer. Around his
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Bitter Harvest
Should we cultivate genetically modified (GM) crops? In Andhra Pradesh, the bt cotton harvest has turned out to be a huge disappointment. Convinced that the new seeds
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Aid for GM food turned down
At the end of a marathon four-hour meeting , the genetic engineering approval committee (GEAC) rejected the US case for permitting import of corn soya blend suspected to contain genetically-modified
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Fertiliser price hike to have little impact on farmers: CEA
Sticking to its guns, the finance ministry defended its decision to increase fertiliser price. Talking to FE, chief economic advisor (CEA) Ashok K Lahiri said the impact of fertiliser price hike
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India bars entry of NGOs' modified Corn-Soya Blend
The Indian government has decided not to allow the entry of 23,000 metric tonnes of Corn-Soya Blend under the food-aid programme by two NGOs
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Agricultural reversal
The Bangladesh's northern region which has long deposed Barisal to become the granary of the most populous nation in the world, has reportedly suffered an agricultural setback of an unprecedented