Seeds bill doesn t matter in India's horticulture capital
<font class='UCASE'>sopan joshi</font> meets farmer tycoons oblivious of the Seeds Bill 2004, but hooked to a biotech future
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West Bengal industrialisation plans on hold as centre reviews SEZs The West Bengal government's industrialisation ambitions received a series of setbacks in the past month with the Union government
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Farmers against even modest power rate hike
State ministers are giving the agriculture sector a breather by ignoring the Prime Minister's call to stop subsidising power supply and agreeing instead to charge a minimum rate. But this, too, is being resisted by farmers.
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ZIMBABWE
Grain production in Zimbabwe has increased by 500 per cent, thanks to the use of a "biofertiliser'
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In court
Mining firm Acquitted: On April 24, 2007, Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, and one of its executives were acquitted of charges related to dumping unsafe levels of toxic
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Crushed by sugar
Farmers in Chhattisgarh blame the state for losses
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Back to bullocks
Bharatiya Cattle Resource Develop met Foundation ( bcrdf ), a non-governmental organisation has developed an ecofriendly bullock driven tractor ( bdt ) for improvised tilling. The
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Threatened industry
the biotech industry in the us is receiving brickbats from all directions. Some key grain processors, such as A E Staley Manufacturing, which is the us corn processing unit of
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India bans export of non basmati rice
the Union government increased the minimum support price of wheat, paddy, sugarcane, mustard, rapeseed and other agricultural commodities on October 9. The announcement was made after the Cabinet
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A self sacrificing tree
KHEJRI (Prosopis cineraria) is nature's best gift to the farmers of Rajasthan and Haryana for it not only thrives in drought conditions and in poor soils, but also encourages the growth of crops
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Animal farming opposed
British farmers are on the defensive as opposition mounts from animal welfare groups on current animal farming practices. In early February, a group of about 2,000 animal lovers clashed with the
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Death trail
Debt laden Maharashtra farmers choose to die
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Market pulse
Lahu Fale does not have to think twice about market availability, price and transportation when it comes to deciding which crops to grow. Now he and other farmers in Pune's Kolwan Valley can sell
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Egypt
The Egyptian government scrapped controls on rents for farmland in October after a gap of five years. Egypt's 9,04,000 tenant farmers have become subject to a 1992 law allowing landowners to
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Book review: Commercial cultivation of medicinal plants
It is an obvious business risk for a farmer to give up growing conventional crops that have assured returns and start growing medicinal plants. But the book under review shows precisely how to reduce such risk; indeed, such risk is entirely justified. Wri
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South Asia
radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and
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In court
US farmers appeal for commercial hemp farming Two farmers in the US state of North Dakota are appealing against a lower court's decision over commercial hemp farming. The lawsuit aims to end
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Cash cropped
Transnational corporations are playing havoc with the lives of farmers
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Erratic weather hits Bangladesh's boro rice
the boro rice crop in three low-lying northeastern districts of Bangladesh has been hit hard due to erratic weather conditions, which has necessitated change in sowing pattern. The crop, grown
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Spraying lessons
Farmers in Vietnam and the Philippines are literally being taught a lesson. Eager to incr crop yields, they were liberal ia using pesticides to contain leaf dar4 age, which has never