Monsanto doubles quarterly income on seed sales
Agrichemical producer Monsanto Co. MON.N , best known for its Roundup weed killer, said that quarterly earnings doubled on higher sales of biotech and specialty seeds. St. Louis-based Monsanto,
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Punjab Agro, UBL sign contract farming pact
In what may make barley an integral part of the second green revolution in Punjab, United Breweries Ltd (UBL) and the Punjab Agro Industries Corporation Ltd (PAICL) today entered into a contract
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State agri census gets under way
Cropping pattern, dispersal of land holding, tenancy, land utilisation and irrigation status
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Pepsico plans pineapple contract farming in State
Pepsico is planning to launch largescale pineapple cultivation of the Hawaiian variety in Kerala by mobilising farmers and encouraging contract farming for which the US multinational will provide the
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Scope of three crop rotation in Punjab
Efforts are on to find sustainable alternatives to wheat and rice in Punjab. There are two alternatives: diversification from wheat and rice to say pulses and oilseeds; and contract farming. These
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Corpn to take project to residential areas
The Environmental Centre of the Corporation of Cochin is preparing to extend its Green Canopy project to residential areas in Kochi city, with the help of residents associations. The Corporation
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IMA holds seminar on food hygiene
A seminar was conducted by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Kochi, on 'Safe food concept and food hygiene' at the IMA Blood Bank hall for creating an awareness on food adulteration and the
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Backlash In Agriculture?
There are no signs as yet of the mini-Ministerial in Montreal having been successful in breaking the impasse on agriculture or TRIPs, although a softening of hard positions is indeed possible before
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84pc cotton-pickers exposed to pesticide hazards: NARC
National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) (Pakistan) has launched a programme to reduce pesticide risk among women in cotton-producing areas where as many as 84 percent women cotton-pickers fall
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Karnataka farmers commit suicide
Three farmers from Karnataka - two from Dharwad distrct and one from Haveri district - have allegedly commited suicide, unable to repay agricultural
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In search of... a future?
The tobacco farmers of Andhra Pradesh who, till now, have had a reasonably comfortable life, feel threatened by the proposed anti-tobacco law. The tobacco farmers of Andhra Pradesh, numbering nearly
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'Regulate flow of food products from abroad'
The Consumer Affairs Minister, Sharad Yadav, has urged the Commerce Minister, Arun Jaitley, to set up mechanisms to regulate the flow of products such as food supplements for weight loss and muscle
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Farmers seek compensation for loss from Bt cotton
A majority of farmers at a public hearing here have complained that they incurred heavy losses by cultivating Bt cottonseed, produced by Mahyco-Monsanto. The Telangana Natural Resources Management
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Notice to centre, L-G on illegal slaughter
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Centre, lieutenant-governor of Delhi, MCD commissioner, city police chief and four others on a writ petition alleging illegal daily slaughter of over
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Agri sector ready to face WTO challenges
Pakistan Minister for Agriculture Muhammad Arshad Khan Lodhi has said the government is giving special attention to promote education, health and agriculture sectors. As many as Rs 16 billion have
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Green light for global study on food security
Experts from business, politics, food, farming and development agreed the basis on the weekend for an ambitious review of how science can help some 800 million chronically undernourished people in
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Bonanza for paddy farmers
The Sri Lankan Agriculture Ministry will export one hundred thousand metric tons of rice with a view to offer a higher price to the local paddy harvest collected by the farmers during the 2002-2003
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Plant infection hits J&K cricket bat units
With willow plantations in Jammu and Kashmir being affected by acute plant infection, the Rs 25 crore cricket bat industry is on the verge of closure. While willow is grown in the Kashmir region, bat
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Centre likely to bring bill to ban cow-slaughter
The Centre may introduce a bill to ban cow slaughter and check interstate smuggling of bovine species during this session of Parliament. This was announced by Agriculture Minister Rajnath Singh in
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GM crop can feed world: Vatican
The Vatican stunned opponents of genetically modified foods by declaring that they held the answer to world starvation and malnutrition. Until the statement the Vatican had been neutral in the EU-US