Crop yields are projected to decrease under future climate conditions, and recent research suggests that yields have already been impacted. However, current impacts on a diversity of crops subnationally and implications for food security remains unclear. Here, we constructed linear regression relationships using weather and reported crop data to assess …
A late burst of rains in Madhya Pradesh has given soybean farmers a reason to smile after a long dry period that was threatening to ruin the crop. If the good spell continues till the end of the monsoon season, production may unexpectedly exceed the estimates by up to 10 …
Alarmed that genetically engineered crops may be finding their way into organic and natural foods, an industry group has begun a campaign to test products and label those that are largely free of biotech ingredients. Skip to next paragraph Top, Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times; Above, Genetic ID A campaign …
While news reports and disaster movies remind us about tipping points for Arctic melt and sea level rise, some things closer to home get less attention. Take food supply: new modelling studies show that there are climate tipping points here too, beyond which crop yields will collapse. Wolfram Schlenker at …
Aparna Pallavi and Archita Bhatta From what to sow to when to reap, farmers need weather forecast at every step. It can make or break them The monsoon forecast in May said India would receive good rains this year, and the onset was predicted for the first week of June. …
U.S. farmers and foresters could earn more money from carbon contracts than they pay in higher costs from legislation to control greenhouse gases, the Agriculture Department estimated on Wednesday. In the near term, most of the money would go to people who plant trees to lock carbon in the soil …
The concept of local food is appealing to many consumers. But it is difficult to define what actually constitutes local food. Given the globalised nature of agricultural markets, bread baked in a small village bakery in England may be made from grain grown in Canada. Similarly, many of the inputs …
It is presumed that remarkable increases in cotton productivity in India have come about through bacillus thuringiensis cotton and that this approach therefore must be replicated in other crops. This article explores the myth of rising yields of genetically modified crops and points out that genetic engineering has been at …
Brazil is set to begin commercial planting of a soybean variety with a gene that makes it resistant to the devastating Asian rust fungus, which is beginning to develop tolerance to conventional fungicides. Local growers could markedly reduce production costs if the new variety, which was developed by the Fundacao …
Brazil's biosafety regulator CTNBio has approved the use of Monsanto's Bollgard 2 genetically modified cotton seed, the company said on Thursday. The pest-resistant cotton variety must still be approved by Brazil's Agriculture Ministry before it can be planted in the country. U.S.-based Monsanto has a total of six genetically modified …
The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTCQ) has said three popular brands of edible oil -Dhara, Family and Shakti have been found substandard and unfit for consumption. Organising a press conference in Kathmandu Sunday, the DFTCQ said Family brand mustard oil, Dhara brand mustard oil and Shakti brand …
Monsanto Co said on Wednesday that it expects its US gross profit from sales of seeds and traits to double by 2012 from the 2008 level, while its international businesses should grow by 85 percent. That would amount to a gross profit of $4.7 billion to $4.8 billion by 2012, …
AAn environmental group's push to temporarily ban a widely used herbicide in Argentina, citing a scientist's preliminary study, has sparked concern in the country's huge soy industry and generated disagreement within the government. An environmental group filed suit in April before the Supreme Court, seeking a ban on glyphosate, a …
The crop-biotechnology wars are heating up again, with Monsanto Co. filing a patent-infringement lawsuit against archrival DuPont Co., which responded by calling Monsanto a monopolist. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal district court in Monsanto's hometown of St. Louis, is aimed at forcing DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred seed business to dismantle …
This study presents the findings of research into the global socio-economic and environmental impact of biotech crops in the twelve years since they were first commercially planted on a significant area. It focuses on the farm level economic effects, the production effects, the environmental impact resulting from changes in the …
Researchers at Binerpota Agriculture Research Centre here have evolved two new varieties of salinity-tolerant soybean seed ushering in a high hope of providing nutrition to the poor people at lower cost. Researchers of the Centre under Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute, after relentless efforts since 2002, finally evolved BARI Soybean-5 and …
In order to rapidly increase the degree of maturation of the soil in land reclamation of the refuse dump of the Haizhou open-pit mines, the application of waste mushroom in the process of soil improvement in the dump was studied. Through the research on plant growth, root development and microbial …
