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 battle lines were drawn over EU plans reform its 40-year old system of costly and protectionist agricultural subsidies, with Brussels facing a tough fight to push its proposals through. The man
Leaders of small growers, tenants and right activists cast away the Pakistan government initiative of the Corporate Agriculture Farming (CAF) here at a media seminar. The seminar was organized by the
When the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission asks you to conduct an experiment, you are expected to go out of your way and complete it. But not if the one asked to do the task is the Indian
Israeli technology, which created waves in Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's Kuppam Assembly constituency in Chittoor district, will now be used for an agricultural project in Ranga Reddy district
The European Commission's proposals to promote more environmentally proposals to promote more environmentally friendly farming, scheduled to beunveiled in the U.S. , make no reference to genetically
The European Union proposed a major overhaul of its 44 billion euro farm subsidies policy to force farmers to be more efficient and pay greater attention to the environment, public health and food
A leading private research institute in the United States says that biotechnology-derived soybeans maize (corn) and cotton yield environmental benefits and pose no more environmental concerns that
The world demand for biotech seeds is expected to increase 12 per cent per year to touch $3.8 billion in 2006, according to an international study. Arable land planted with transgenic crops is
As a last ditch resort compounded by the erratic power supply farmers of more than 60 villages in Chhat Bir, Patiala have constructed an earthen bundh to divert the water of the Ghaggar, near
The widely expected but much denied hidden taxes in the Amarinder Singh government's first budget surfaced today, with the Punjab Cabinet levying a four percent tax on fertilisers, so far out of the
