European Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler said he is confident that Europe will soon agree to roll back the bulk of its farm subsidies, which have stood in the way of global trade talks.
India needed to develop a proper regulatory framework to emerge as a key player in global seed trade, said International Seed Federation (ISF) general secretary Le Buenec. He was talking to reporters
The application of modern horticultural technology can enhance fruit production in the Mansehra district (Pakistan). This was said by participants of a two-day-long workshop on 'Best Management
The Agriculture and Livestock Ministry has prepared a new action plan for the livestock sector with the intention of bringing the animal husbandry sphere into its expected targets which suffered a
The Muslim and Jewish method of animal slaughter, which involves slitting animals' throats and allowing them to bleed to death, should be banned in Britain immediately, a government-funded group
A unique solution has been found to the city's stray cattle problem. The cattle will now be rehabilitated and their dung and urine used to produce vermicompost and fertilisers for export to the
A silent revolution is brewing within the four walls of what used to be the official residence of the jailor of the Hijli Jail at Kharagpur, within the premises of the Indian Institute of Technology,
About four million agricultural families from 134 drought-hit taluks in the State are expected to benefit from the Karnataka Government's decision to waive land tax by 50 to 100 per cent. While 66
The cultivation of Patchouli has been a profitable enterprise in Assam. It can be cultivated in a wide range of soil and climatic conditions. The leaves of Patchouli is used to prepare Patchouli oil.
It says much about the European Union's common agricultural policy that proposed reforms that would not cut spending, import barriers or most prices are described as radical by both supporters and
India is expected to approve within six months the commercial growing of a genetically modified potato which contains nutrients lacking in the diets of many of the poor, the BBC reported. The BBC
The Agriculture Ministry has drawn up an Rs 1,430 crore blueprint to plant jatropha trees, a hardy tree species popularly known as 'Rattanjyot', in four lakh hectares of wasteland in eight States as
Three projects amounting to Rs 86 lakh have been sanctioned by the Central Government for Kamrup district in Assam under the Integrated Wasteland Development Project (IWDP) for 2002-07, stated a
In another first of sorts, the Kancheepuram district administration of Tamil Nadu has launched a move to develop poromboke lands for green fodder with participation of women self-help groups (SHGs).
Tea Smallholders Chairman Chandra Wijenaike says that the contributory factor for the decline in 2002/2003 production was the extremely dry weather in the Balangoda and Pasgoda regions (Sri Lanka).
The Uttar Pradesh State Council of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has decided to orgnaise a 'Kisan panchayat' in the state. The council, which met chalked out a strategy to mobilise people
GM crops could help small farmers in the developing world, says the Nuffield Council for Bioethics - an independent group of scientists, lawyers, philosophers and other academics. New crops can cut
Long before organic became fashionable, one little corner of Punjab was doing the right thing. Not because they anticipated the world back-to-basics boom in growing and eating naturally, but simply
If you've ever wondered why, despite the advances in irrigation tech, the country and its farmers wait so anxiously for the monsoons, here's the answer: Sixty per cent of India's crops comes from
The Delhi government's relief distribution for drought has run into rough
