Agriculture is multi-functional, producing economic goods including food, feed, fibre, and fuel, as well as providing several intangible or non-tradable services to society free of cost. Non-tradable services,
Green issues dominate a new blueprint for the future of rural England, but farmers are already up in arms over proposals affecting how much aid they will get. 2001 was a terrible year for farming,
The Japan farm ministry and the health ministry are negotiating the establishment of a food safety agency in fiscal 2002, ministry officials said. The proposed agency would be formed by combining the
A significant measure under consideration is a ban on import of soyabean oil produced from genetically-modified (GM) soyabean. Under the law of the land, import of genetically-modified products is
The mounting food grain surpluses which at present are valued around Rs 65,000 crore, mainly resulting from increasing procurement levels and falling demand from states, have been worrying the Centre
Haryana introduced tele-agriculture to enable the state's farmers to refer their problems to experts in various fields in the department of agriculture and in Chaudhary Charan Singh's Haryana
The West Bengal government has decided to hand over 57 acres of land of the state's agriculture department to the Indian Council of Agriculture Research free of cost for the setting up a mango and
The election manifesto of the SAD which is being given a finishing touch will focus on political stability and unfold new schemes aimed at " resuscitating " agriculture and rural economy and accruing
With biotechnology being discussed majority in both developed and developing countries, the World Health Organisation along with the Food and Agriculture Organisation will start evaluating the safety
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made public its translation of China's new regulations governing the import of genetically modified foods, a series of rules USDA Secretary Ann Veneman
China's Ministry of Agriculture said it will implement new rules on genetically modified organisms (GMO) as planned on March 20, contrary to market talk of a possible delay. We will surely implement
