Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Scientists must ask corporations for permission before publishing independent research on genetically modified crops. That restriction must end. (Editorial)
BHUBANESWAR: Agro and agro-based industry in Orissa is upward bound despite the industrial scenario in the State showing signs of recessionary trends. The sector has posted positive performance in the second half of 2008-09 compared to the first half. According to the CII report, Bi-annual Industry Monitor of Orissa, the …
US scientists are trying to develop wheat strains resistant to a fungus that has spread from Africa to Iran, and is likely to show up soon in India and Pakistan. The 'Ug99' fungus, also known as 'stem rust', is likely to spread world-wide, either through windblown spores or carried inadvertently …
Aimed at increasing flow of investment Agro processing projects worth 160 crore okayed CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government has proposed a new Agro-Industrial Policy-2009 to be implemented through its nodal agency, the Punjab Agro Industries Corporation, for speeding up industrialisation in agriculture and agro-processing. According to an official release here, the …
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, …
Agriculture sector of the country is incurring huge post harvest loss amounting to Taka 30,000 crore annually due to unplanned and haphazard collection and preservation of at least 15 food grains. On an average 17 percent of total production of the food grains suffer loss and due to this, the …
Industries Minister Dilip Barua on Thursday said the government ensured proper supply and distribution of fertiliser in the country. The farmers did not need to search fertilizer anywhere in the country after the present government came to power, he said adding many scandals including killings of farmers took place in …
Thousands of families in the Southern province depending on the coir industry have lost their livelihood due to the shortage of coconut husks. They said the fragmentation of coconut estates as housing blocks and tsunami sites has resulted in this state of affairs and that the devastation caused by the …
Sindh government has selected four consultant firms for initiating feasibility work for the "cluster development" of agro-based small and medium enterprises, sources told Business Recorder on Friday. They said that six companies had taken part in the bidding process, out of them four pre-qualified last Monday. The consultants, who would …
Clipboard in hand, Debra Anderson spent three hours one recent sunny morning trooping through a field of romaine lettuce looking for trouble. Workers harvest romaine lettuce at a Church Brothers field in Huron, Calif. Increasingly, auditors below the federal level are inspecting produce fields and other farms. She searched for …
Efforts are underway to start export of mangoes to the United States during the forthcoming season, as the main hurdle of non-availability of irradiation treatment has now been removed. It would be a major breakthrough as at present India enjoys a complete sway in exports of mangoes to the United …
CHENNAI: In the next few months, the Tamil Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) will be implementing six new projects in joint venture in different districts at a total cost of Rs.107 crore, its general manager B. Ramakrishnan said on Monday. Addressing members of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and …
One of the most destructive developments in agriculture over the past two decades has been the boom in soya production in the southern cone of Latin America. The corporations that led that boom are now moving aggressively into sugar cane, focusing on large tracts of land in southern countries where …
Thousands of tonnes of wheat procured by the Punjab Agro Industries Corporation this season and stored in the open has been rotting at some places in the state. Procured in May this year, it was stored on open plinths and fields rented by the agency. At Kotla Bhai Ke village, …
floods Kosi breach yet to be plugged The breach in the Kosi embankment that caused the devastating flood in Bihar may not be plugged before March 2009. The deadline for completion of the work was in November, but the state government extended it by four months. Though the government did …
Policy makers in India recognize the importance of well-functioning markets to agricultural growth, food security, and broad-based rural development. Markets facilitate the commercialization and diversification of farming, and they are essential for efficiently bringing food and agricultural products to domestic and international consumers. Well functioning domestic markets can reduce the …
The world food crisis, rapidly defined by those in power as a problem of insufficient production, has become a trojan horse to get corporate seeds, fertilisers and, surreptitiously, market systems into poor countries. As past experience shows, what looks like
