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 National Farmers' Union is launching a campaign to highlight how little farmers receive from the retail price of their food. A basket of farmed produce including beef, eggs, milk, bread, tomatoes
Ten years ago at the Rio Earth Summit, heads of State adopted the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and wrestled with climate change strategies. World leaders recognized that the front-line
Owing to severe drought conditions prevailing in the Andhra Pradesh continuously for the this year coupled with the depletion of ground water, Andhra Pradesh farmers are turning towards arid crops.
The ICRISAT has announced a $5,00,000 collaborative project with the Monsanto subsidiary, MAHYCO, to develop crop varieties, which will be resistant to the tobacco streak virus and its variants. The
Five agricultural institutions have agreed to undertake a collaborative research project to find a long-term sustainable solution to the tobacco streak virus (TSV) that has been causing heavy damage
Programmes for control of Mastitis - a deadly cattle disease estimated to cause annual losses of over Rs 6,000 crore to the country's dairy sector - should focus more on prevention and detection at
The famine in southern Africa has caused some staunch opponents of generically modified food to take a second look. Thousands of tons of genetically modified food has been donated to the region,
About 4,000 chickens will be destroyed at a poultry farm in Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, after some 600 other birds died in an outbreak of Newcastle disease, a highly contagious disease among birds,
Brazil's federal environmental institute IBAMA is due to publish later this month rules for experimental planting of crops genetically modified to resist pests, government researchers said. It marks
The Inter Ministerial Task Force on Agriculture Marketing Reforms has just submitted its report, following an earlier report of the Expert Committee on Agricultural Marketing. Quite clearly,
