Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
INDIA’S Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has rejected a request by University of Agricultural Sciences in Bengaluru to conduct trials on transgenic groundnuts for commercial development in difficult terrain. The university wanted to conduct trials for drought and salt tolerance. GEAC noted that transgenic groundnut expresses transcription factors— proteins that …
- College teacher focuses on local varieties rugra and khukhriA woman sells rugra mushrooms at Kutchery Chowk in Ranchi. File pictureRanchi, Aug.11: The state science and technology department is considering a biotechnology professor
Richard BlackBuild-up of different types of resistance could make it more difficult to manage the plants using herbicides.Transgenes present in 80 per cent of wild canola found by studyAuthorities had anticipated the existence of GM
As the regulatory impasse continues after the sordid saga of the moratorium on Bt brinjal, another battle front has been opened by the anti-biotech activists demanding a complete withdrawal of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill. For them, they do not see anything good happening from any regulation …
The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan met the Union Agriculture Minister Shri Sharad Pawar and urged him to take initiative for setting up of international wheat and maize research centre at Jabalpur. Minister for Animal Husbandry Shri Ajay Vishnoi accompanied him. Shri Chouhan said that 200 acre land would …
Sreenivas Janyala Six software engineers who invested their own money to take agriculture research to farmers through information and communication technology find themselves in a spot because the Andhra Pradesh government has reneged on its promise to fund the project.The pilot project it-rural.com, which was praised by the Food and …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Aiming to develop a long-term strategy for scientific management of soil resources in the State, a project to evolve soil-based plant nutrient management plan for agro-ecosystems was launched here on Wednesday. The ambitious multi-institutional project aims to analyse around 2.3 lakh soil samples, collected from 999 panchayats and to …
THE benign mychorrhizal fungi live in a mutually beneficial arrangement in the roots of most plants. They help the plant absorb essential nutrients like phosphorous and in return receive carbohydrates from the plant. But they do not bond with major food crops like rice. Swiss researchers recently claimed they can …
Unjustified and impractical legal requirements are stopping genetically engineered crops from saving millions from starvation and malnutrition, says Ingo Potrykus.
To feed the world without further damaging the planet, Jeffrey Sachs and 24 food-system experts call for a global data collection and dissemination network to track the myriad impacts of different farming practices.
Plant breeders are turning their attention to roots to increase yields without causing environmental damage. Virginia Gewin unearths some promising subterranean strategies.
Sandip Das New Delhi: Bangalore-based Foundation of Biotechnology Awareness and Education (FBAE) has asked the government to lift the indefinite moratorium imposed on commercial introduction of Bt brinjal in the country by the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF). It stated that the indefinite moratorium has created a 'regulatory uncertainty' …
Feeding the world is going to require the scientific and financial muscle of agricultural biotechnology companies. Natasha Gilbert asks whether they're up to the task.
JAIPUR: Former Supreme Court and High Court judges have called for a five-year moratorium on use of genetically modified (GM) foods in the country in view of all the
As demand for food shoots up, only a sustainable farm policy that involves higher research allocation, lower wastage and an alternative to the public distribution will help contain inflation, says Rajan Bharti Mittal LET me start by welcoming the Reserve Bank of India
World hunger remains a major problem, but not for the reasons many suspect. Nature analyses the trends and the challenges of feeding 9 billion by 2050.
Producing enough food for the world's population in 2050 will be easy. But doing it at an acceptable cost to the planet will depend on research into everything from high-tech seeds to low-tech farming practices. (Editorial)
Public-private participation in agricultural research will help farmers make gainful use of technology Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 27, 2010, 0:58 IST Gone are the days when the public-funded agricultural research network treated the private sector as virtually untouchable. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is now making …
