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,
It is only a modest exaggeration to say that as goes agriculture, so goes the planet. Of all the human activities that shape the environment, agriculture is the single most important, and it is well
A study conducted by the University of Agriculture in Dharwad has revealed that the cultivation of Bt cotton results in reduction of pesticides. The study concluded that more Bollworm damage was
The inter-district productivity gap of major crops is widening in Orissa signaling danger to food security of the state, says a study conducted by the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology
The target of Aman paddy cultivation has been achieved in Netrakona district (Bangladesh) this year. Favourable climatic condition prevailing in the district has been attributed to achievement of
The controversy shrouding Bt cotton has further mystified with a new study coming out in favour of the genetically modified cotton. Cultivation of Bt cotton results in the reduction of pesticide,
The US-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to render an assistance of $25 million for combating malnutritional problems in the developing countries, including India. This assistance
New Zealand has been hit by its first outbreak of an untreatable pig disease, agriculture officials said, citing initial tests at a pig farm where a third of the piglets died. The disease usually
China has successfully bred a new variety of 'super hybrid rice', which would boost the average output per hectare to 9,750 kg from the current national average of 6,300 kg. The breakthrough was by
There is an urgent need to accord recognition to the traditional wisdom of farmers who persist with retaining biodiversity in agricultural practices in the face of the aggressive promotion of
Crop losses caused by three successive years of inadequate rainfall and the diminishing presence of institutional credit force a large number of Karnataka farmers into the debt trap. Some of them
