Globally 30 percent of the food produced never reaches to a human stomach (FAO, 2021). Tackling food loss and waste benefits the climate, food security, and sustainability of agri-food systems. India suffers
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has opened gates for US food major Monsanto to carry experiments with its genetically modified cotton seeds anywhere in the Andhra Pradesh's agricultural fields.
U.S. wheat sales to Egypt could face pressure from concerns over genetically-modified (GM) wheat and the high price of the dollar, industry experts said at a conference to promote U.S. wheat.
Strengthening marketing infrastructure for agricultural produce and leaving ground-level decisions, including use of genetically modified crops, to the farmers were among the issues strongly stressed
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) here is currently working on a transgenic groundnut crop that is resistant to peanut clump virus, which is stated to be
Indian agriculture relies greatly on dryland farming for its growth and sustenance. Of India's total land area of 305 million hectares, nearly 68 million hectares are covered by forests and 143
Former MP and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sanat Mehta has stated that cotton growers of India and Gujarat in particular have been pushed to the brink of ruin because the Central
The tightening supply has pushed the price of coca to new highs in recent months in Peru, drug market analysts say, making legitimate crops even less appealing while opening fresh opportunities for
The US Senate passed a $45 billion farm bill that steps away from free-market reforms begun in 1985. Passed despite White House objections, the bill is bad news for Australian primary producers and
While American troops search Afghanistan for terrorists, relief agencies feed its refugees and a nascent government seeks to restore order, something experts call essential for reviving the shattered
The EU's farm policy chief this week called for a common strategy on gene-modified foods that addressed consumers' worries about health and the environment in a rational way. Europe lacks a shared
