Brazil faces major GM soy battle - industry
Brazil is running out of time to find a legal way of marketing illegally grown soybeans in 2003 and faces a major fight in enforcing the ban next year, soy analysts, producers and traders said.
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FM rolls back urea price
Finance minister Jaswant Singh withdrew the increase in fertiliser prices that was proposed in the Budget. The rollback will now cost the exchequer Rs 700 crore on top of the Rs 12700 crore budgeted
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Chaos in LS over cow slaughter resolution
Members of the Opposition, especially Congress and Left parties thwarted the passing of a BJP-backed private member's resolution for a ban on cow slaughter on Tuesday by resisting a vote on it amid a
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Farm situation worsens: CMIE
The situation on the agriculture front has worsened in this fiscal with food production placed at 183 million tons compared to 212 million tons produced in financial year 2001-02 (FY-02) showing a
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Bt cotton cut pesticide consumption
An increase in Bt cotton acreage over the next few years will lead to 20-25% reduction in pesticide consumption, even if not a drastic reduction, the Rabobank study on biotech seeds has maintained.
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State farming policy protect cultivators of unirrigated land
Maharashtra government would soon announce an agriculture policy with a thrust on providing adequate protection to cultivators of unirriated lands, State Agriculture Minister Govindrao Adik
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EU to seek support on farm trade talks
India is set to raise vexed bilateral issues like extension of the generalised system of preferences benefits provided to Pakistan under the drug window waiver regime and also seek a review of anti
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Farm policy adopted, state to be upgraded
Contract farming is out and multinational companies won't control a command area of cropping. West Bengal will be upgraded from an agricultural state to an agro-industrial one with large companies,
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Genesis of farmers agitation
Why have thousands of farmers taken to the streets in Patiala and Chandigarh? What are their problems and concerns? What is common between the two parallel agitations? At both places, thhe agitation
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Rajasthan to have new land Revenue Act
Rajasthan will have a new Land Revenue Act that will replace the existing Rajasthan Land Revenue Act of 1956. The State Cabinet, which met, decided to go in for new legislation during the current
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BJP: Amend laws to ban cow slaughter
The ruling BJP is hopeful of bringing about a Constitutional Amendment Bill to enforce a ban on cow slaughter. The BJP is hopeful that Vajpayee government will bring a legislation to ban cow
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Swaminathan award
The Retired ICAR Employees Association has resolved to present Dr M S Swaminathan Award for those who make substantial contribution to the field of agricultural sciences. The decision to institute
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Reap the Whirlwind
Dickens's Uriah Heep was the archetype of social hypocrisy. Has our urea heap become the archetype of economic hypocrisy? Once again, in the name of the poor farmer, finance minister Jaswant Singh
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Farming shake-up must balance regional needs'
A leading Chinese rural affairs specialist has warned that the country must take into account regional economic disparities as it implements legislation making it easier for farmers to sell land they
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Farmers not happy with BT: Minister
Agriculture Minister Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao admitted in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly that farmers had complained about the BT Cotton seeds supplied by Monsanto-Mahico companies. "Some
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Brazil permits sale of barred GM soyabean
The Brazilian Agriculture Minister, Mr Roberto Rodrigues, has said farmers will be allowed to sell banned transgenic soyabean temporarily on the domestic market, clarifying a statement made last week
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Eritrea and Ethiopia face food and funding crisis
Food shortages in Eritrea have now become critical, and humanitarian efforts are facing a severe funding crisis, the United Nations has warned. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Government, fertiliser sector to equally share cut in urea prices
The Pakistan government is likely to reduce the urea fertiliser prices by Rs 20 per bag to be equally shared by the fertiliser industry and the federal government, a senior cabinet member said. "We
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Biotech wheat may cut US exports in half - study
There is a "high risk" that the U.S. wheat industry will lose 30 percent to 50 percent of its business with foreign markets for spring wheat if Monsanto Co. releases its controversial genetically
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New threat to sugarcane crop
Sugarcane production in Karnataka and Maharashtra are likely to be considerably affected this year, following the outbreak of an infestation by a new pest in large tracts of sugarcane fields in the