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,
The Punjab state government has launched a special action plan for crop
Minister for agriculture Vadde Sobhabadreeswara Rao on Friday announced that weather stations would be set up in all districts of Andhra Pradesh to give early caution to the
Farmers are angry as government agencies are making selective procurement of wheat. Farmers have to wait for days to sell their wheat. Officials concerned say they have been procuring only that wheat
The Chandigarh city may soon become free of the leaf-burning menace. The leaves will instead be put to productive use if the proposal put forwarded by Municipal Councillor Chander Mukhi Sharma comes
The Karnataka former chief Minister, S. Bangarappa, has set out on his own to provide relief to people affected by drought in his Shimoga Lok Sabha Constituency. Without looking to the state
There is a strong lobby pushing Bt cotton, and this is why the seed has won government approval even though it is totally unsuited to Indian
Sindh minister for agriculture, food and forests Hassan Ali Chaniho has said that the Sindh government (Pakistan) is giving priority to the agricultural research as it has earmarked a record Rs65
The government should finalise modalities for contract farming in cotton at the earliest to ensure adequate supply of quality cotton to the mills, Indian Cotton Mills Federation said. The modalities
The blueprints of two genomic sequence of the rice plant unveiled in 'Science' magazine are already providing unprecedented insights to scientists. The first is that the a rice plant probably carries
Some farmers at Maina in Barasat (West Bengal) are selling their land to brick kiln owners despite a ban. Rampant digging of soil has affected the agricultural drainage system of Barasat and
