The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft prepared about nine years ago by the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Among other things, …
China said on Wednesday it would boost agriculture innovation in an effort to increase food output, signaling that the world's most populous country is trying to tackle outdated farm and food infrastructure to feed its people. China accounts for a fifth of the world's population with less than 9 percent …
The facility will develop and test new hybrid seed varieties, says MD Monsanto India’s Managing Director Amitabh Jaipuria at the launch of breeding centre in Chikkaballapur on Monday. With a tinge of frustration and anger, Monsanto India’s Managing Director Amitabh Jaipuria clarified that the breeding station inaugurated in Chikkaballapur on …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a state-run company to compensate farmers for supplying defective seeds to them. The court rejected the plea of National Seeds Corporation that it was not liable to pay compensation as it was governed by the provisions of the Seeds Act 1966 and …
Dhaka: The Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project (IAPP), funded by Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GA-FSP), will enhance the productivity of agriculture (crops, livestock and fisheries) in some selected project areas of the country. This includes Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilfamari, and Lalmonirhat districts in the flash-flood and drought-prone areas in the …
More than 200 farmers from across the city underwent special training in zero budget farming as part of a farming training and farmers' mela that concluded here on Sunday. The training, jointly organised by the Kerala Gandhi Smarak Nidhi and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), had …
The acreage under the transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India has risen significantly since its legalization in the year 2002. Discussions on the advantages from the technology have focused on increments in productivity and income, without much analysis on risk. Point out that claims on productivity gains seem to be …
This issue of insights is the result of a collaborative process involving experts working in policy, research and practice on gender and food security in four global regions. At the centre of the process was a dynamic online discussion, which raised many issues and questions around the gender power dynamics …
The income is not enough to meet even their expenses this year Caught in crisis: The consignment that has arrived at the cotton market in Raichur. It is called the white gold in these parts. But cotton has failed to bring fortunes to farmers in the district. Decreased production, failure …
The main reason for the continued low use of quality seed has been inadequate access. Though the private sector has taken a lead in harnessing technological innovation in some segments, it has concentrated on particular types of seed. It has also occasionally supplied spurious and low quality seeds and charged …
Here’s a quick update on efforts to expand access to higher-yielding hybrid seed in Nepal. Even though the country already has lots of different varieties beyond their own traditional supplies, a recent plan to expand access to higher-yielding seed, facilitated by the United States Agency for International Development and involving …
Our ability to manage gene flow within traditional agroecosystems and their repercussions requires understanding the biology of crops, including farming practices' role in crop ecology. That these practices' effects on crop population genetics have not been quantified bespeaks lack of an appropriate analytical framework. We use a model that construes …
Mahyco confident of regulatory approvals, plans launch within a year. Bt brinjal may have gone into the deep freezer, but that has hardly dampened the enthusiasm of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co (Mahyco) from coming up with new genetically modified (GM) crops. Mahyco now plans to introduce Bt rice and Bt …
New Delhi The government has allowed the import of seeds of new varieties of wheat and paddy for trial and evaluation purposes, Parliament was informed on Friday. In July, the agriculture ministry had revised the New Policy on Seeds Development of 1988 to allow the import of a specific quantity …
The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences has come out with the latest policy paper on Biosafety Assurance for GM Food Crops in India that contains science-based recommendations and concrete actions for safe, inclusive and judicious harnessing of GM technologies for accelerated and sustained crop production. The NAAS policy paper critically …
From the UN Rio+20 preparatory meetings in New York, ETC Group launches Who Will Control the Green Economy? The report connects the dots between the climate and oil crises, new technologies and corporate power. The report warns that the world’s largest companies are riding the coattails of the “Green Economy” …
The future vision of Agricultural Policy of Rajasthan shall be to ensure food and nutritional security and economic empowerment to the people through accelerated yet sustainable growth in agriculture. The goal will be to ensure food and nutrition security, farm prosperity and strengthen agrarian economy by tapping vast agricultural resources …
KOLKATA, 23 NOV: As many as 10 former Supreme Court judges, several members of Parliament, over 200 organisations and one lakh citizens have asked the Prime Minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, to scrap the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill in its present form that is set to be …
As agreed at the recently held 17th SAARC Summit in the Maldives, Sri Lanka will set up a ‘SAARC Seed Bank’ to boost agriculture production in the region. Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers yesterday approved a proposal made by the Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to establish the SAARC …
KOKRAJHAR: The farmers of Janagaon, Titaguri under Titaguri Development Block expressed their strong resentment following the supply of unfit seeds to the farmers in Kokrajhar and demanded compensation for the loss of working expenditure. The complaint of supplying unfit seeds to the farmers was lodged by the Bodoland Halua Afat …
