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,
In the latest budget, the Finance Minister seems to have been ill-advised in as much as agriculture is concerned. By aggressively promoting the cause of horticulture and floriculture, he may
The Union Agriculture Ministry has alerted 16 sugarcane-growing states on the outbreak of pest on sugarcane crops and to take intensive monitoring measures down to the village level. The ministry's
With the rain gods playing truant, the farmers in Bidar district in Karnataka who had lost most of thier other crops, had pinned their hopes on a bumper mango yield. But even this dream seems to have
The Tamil Nadu government's wasteland development programme, which will pave the way for the entry of corporate giants into the State's agricultural sector, is likely to deprive thousands of farmers
The Goa government has decided to come out with an appropriate legislation to regulate the activity on the controversial question of allowing saline water in the Khazan
President Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's advice to the farmers to adopt new methods of agriculture is indeed timely and correct. Punjab has long been the grain bowl of India and it has been the cradle of
Last May, Song Defu's cornstalks were already reaching skyward when the local television station broadcast the news : From that day forward, village officials had announced, there would be no more
The agriculture ministry has alerted 16 sugarcane growing states about the attack of a new pest, White Woolly Aphid, on sugarcane crop has asked them to undertake intensive monitoring to facilitate
The United Nations food agency will appeal soon for more than $100 million for emergency aid to safeguard Iraqi food production disrupted by war and combat the spread of animal diseases, an agency
In the backdrop of two consecutive drought years and with elections in the Karnataka State at striking distance, Chief Minister S M Krishna in his budget proposals for 2003-04 announced a slew of
