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 state of Jammu and Kashmir which is already reeling under severe economic crunch due to years of militancy, has to bear an additional burden of 9,508.6 hectares of cultivable land rendered
Italian Agriculture Minister, Mr Giovanni Alemanno, said he expected the European Union to drop its informal ban on most biotech products in the near future. He told reporters that rules passed by
Over half the lands in India are considered as wastelands or degraded lands. These lands are highly weathered, leached, lack nutrients and have low vegetation cover and therefore low economic
The Morarka Foundation, in its continuing endeavour to propagate organic farming, will collaborate with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to export cow dung and urine generated by thousands of stray
World cotton production is expected to increase by 7 per cent to 20.5 million tons in 2003/04, the third largest crop in
Scientific evidence shows that GM oilseed rape is expected to cross with five wild British plants, probably creating "superweeds" which are resistant to herbicides. Maps produced to show the
The objectives of the University of Arid Agriculture (UAA) (Pakistan) will not be fulfilled unless its education and research directly benefits common farmers of arid region , the Punjab governor,
The Kerala government plans to take up organic farming in a big way and has set up a technical committee to ensure that it is adopted all over the state. State Agriculture Minister K R Gowriamma told
Calcutta High Court directed that notices be served on NGOs working for the protection of animals in the city, asking them to be parties to an ongoing case against the Calcutta Municipal Corporation
The discovery of two new high yielding varieties of hybrid seeds by a Sikkim based agro scientist is all set to change the lives of the
