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,
Agriculture experts reckon Spanish farmer will benefit from a six-fold increase in genetically modified maize plantings, but farmers say they will proceed cautiously amid public concern about the
The Kerala-based National Farmers' Protection Committee has launched a new movement namely 'Community Enterprise Model' that could help build self-contained socio economic systems ensuring food
The government plans to amend seeds laws to provide for establishment of a National Seeds and compulsory registration of different varieties. The Union agriculture minister,Mr Ajit Singh told the
It's bad enough that foodgrain output during the current kharif season has declined by 18 per cent to 90.8 million tonnes, but what is one to make of the request of Punjab's chief minister Amarinder
Syngenta, the world's largest agrochemicals company is testing 'pro-environment' vegetables, grown with the minimum of pesticides, in an effort to leverage demand for organic produce.
The new Pusa Sugandh 2 and 3 and RH-10 high yielding aromatic rice strains bred by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) will not be marketed internationally as 'basmati' rice. The reason
The Centre is preparing guidelines for facilitating contract farming in the country. Mr. S Dave, Director of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda), said Apeda
Efforts to promote dry land farming under the Indo-German Changer project has brought prosperity to people of arid and infertile hills of Kangra district. Launched in 1994 the Rs 50 crore project has
The Punjab government has drawn up a comprehensive plan for developing one village in each block of the state as "Adarsh Pashu Dhan Pind" (Model livestock village) to bring "white revolution" in the
Despite various imponderables, Indian agriculture has so far managed to hold its ground till now. But oflate, it faces both internal and external threats. The former threat is the near total lack a
