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,
Bihar may not be able to meet the Tenth Plan target of foodgrain production going by the way the state is targeting annual production, a Planning Commission paper has said. According to a note
Walnut production is set to boom in Himachal Pradesh, as a fast growing variety now promises to bear fruit within a year instead of the usual eight years, say scientists. "These fast bearing walnut
The moot question is whether we should follow the environmentalists in India and withdraw the sanction accorded for growing BT cotton or follow the line of the US, China, Australia, Indonesia,
Now, we don't have to rely only on the curd to make ghee, a tree can prove to be an alternative source of ghee as well. This wonder tree also known as Kalpabriksha locally, literally means 'the tree
The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh had strongly contested the Union Agriculture Ministry's decision to merge the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory located in the state capital
Aloe Vera, despite being identified as 'a new plant resource with the most promising prospects in the world', remains a disregarded plant, scattered in the wild, along the coast of southern India.
After a series of successful tests Bathalagoda Paddy Research Institute (Sri Lanka) has recommended a special variety of seed Paddy suitable for areas subjected to floods. This variety of Paddy has
While politicians and bureaucrats of undivided Bihar were allegedly busy making money out of fodder, no body cared for poor animals. Now, the the Jharkhand government has woken up and has decided to
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said his government was committed to ensuring food and financial security in the country. Vajpayee said the NDA government was making a special effort to
"We as a nation possess to our credit, and Engineering Technology running into a period of over 2500 years, which is much valued even , by the developed nations in the West. Our irrigation tanks
