Italy farmers resist order to wreck gene crop
Farmers are resisting an order by Piedmont region in north Italy to destroy almost 400 hectares of maize fields thought to contain genetic material, and may take the matter to court, farm officials
Farmers are resisting an order by Piedmont region in north Italy to destroy almost 400 hectares of maize fields thought to contain genetic material, and may take the matter to court, farm officials
Sheri-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Kashmir has developed a high yielding blast resistant rice variety - SKUA - 105 popularly known as K-39 for 5000 feet
The EU Commission, fending off a trade suit over Europe's refusal to import genetically modified organisms (GMOs), turned its fire on 11 EU states for failing to adopt new rules on GMO permits. The
In a move to develop high yielding and disease resistant crops, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) has formed a consortium with Indian private sector seed
The European Union recently took a small, grudging step toward reforming its farm-subsidy policies that undermine the global trading system and cheat farmers in the underdeveloped world. The one
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh promised loans at lower rates to the farming community. Sops to farmers came after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee launched the Varistha Pension Bima Yojana to
With an eye on the coming Assembly elections this year, a new set of concession for sugarcane farmers was announced. The government today doled out a
NABARD has during the year ended March 2003 provided assistance of Rs 860 crore to rural financial institutions in Gujarat for agriculture and allied activities, as well as for rural non-farm
Almost after a decade of erratic rains, the Gujarat state has this year received almost double of the average rainfall in majority of the 25 districts or far, and this has raised hopes among farmers
The Tamil Nadu state government has allocated Rs 100 crore for recharging over 50,000 agricultural wells during this financial year, Agriculture Minister R Jeevanantham
GIFT School of Technology & Innovation Management, New Delhi, organised a technical presentation on IT-based integrated post-harvest infrastructure in New Delhi on July 18, 2003. The presentation was
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) here proposes to establish a biotechnology-assisted crop improvement consortium involving private sector breeding
The delayed South-West monsoon which slowed down farming operations in the southern districts of Kodagu, Mysore and Mandya, has picked up over the last few weeks. Although there has been heavy rain
Several speakers at the Round Table on "the menace of spurious seeds and scarcity of seeds" held in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh called for amending the Seeds Regulation Act to impose stringent
Orchid cultivation in Goa State is poised for a major take-off with the Goa State Horticulture Corporation gearing up to exploit the potential of orchid plantation in the State. 20 farmers interested
The land and schemes are plenty, but the labourers are few. Hectares of agricultural land are lying fallow in the Municipal area of Canacona, Goa, despite a lot of agricultural schemes floated by the
First it was cotton; now it is mustard. Biotechnology companies from around the world are slowly but surely taking their first, furtive steps at "monopolising and colonising" traditional farming
The Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Agriculture and Co-operatives Mr Abdul Aziz Zargar has called upon the Scientists of Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR) to launch special research
The Congress government in Delhi is on an "onion alert". As the Assembly elections approach, the government does not want to risk an onion crisis. Having wrested power from BJP five years back riding
Agriculture in India has become more dependent on the monsoon than less; and our large food reserves have led to a complacency that shuts our eyes to the reality that most small farmers are caught in