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,
Medak district collector Premachandra Reddy on Wednesday appealed to the Icrisat to adopt watershed development programmes in the district and urged Icrisat scientists to advise the farmers on
The Madhya Pradesh Government's agriculture policy attaching special importance to an action plan for horticulture will be announced in the forthcoming Budget session of the
The European Union was accused of treating its newcomers as second class citizens after Brussels said the mostly eastern European nations looking to join in 2004 would have to wait ten years before
With a view to creating greater awareness about the need to harness the potential of soyabean for the health and nutritional security of the country, the Indore-based Soyabean Processors Association
The Kerala Government has announced reliefs to the tune of Rs.. 240 crore to farmers and workers in traditional industries. The Chief Minister, Mr. A. K. Antony, told press persons after a Cabinet
The Karnataka Government has decided to release Rs.. 5-crore to pay as compensation to farmers who have lost their crops in the recent hailstorm. The Minister said crops in 22,000 hectares were
Are Indians eating less? That might sound incredible but if the latest data collated by the Central Statistical Organisation(CSO) is correct, that would certainly appear to be the case. According to
A six-day agricultural international exhibition (Krishi India 2002) will begin here on February 6. The event, jointly organised by TIDITSSIA and the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, was expected
The Karnataka government is embarking upon an ambitious plan of using the Information Technology (IT) for providing useful information to farmers by establishing information centres at the taluk
China will be asked to postpone its March 20 effective date for new rules governing the import of genetically modified foods so that U.S. soybean shipments will not be interrupted, a U.S. Agriculture
