Sometimes you can't win. The British government has managed to upset the companies that specilise in genetically modified food technology as well as the environmentalists who demand an end to GM

The Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojana (RKBY) will be administered by state level coordination committees on crop insurance (SLCCCI), General Insurance of Corporation of India (GIC) has been appointed as

Novartis India has recorded a nine per cent growth in sales in July 1999 over the same month in the previous year, lower than the 12 per cent growth recorded in the first quarter. The company

expert: The opposition to transgenic seed technologies, which has gained stridency in the wake of Monsanto's controversial field trials on bollgard cotton crop was 'unwarranted and unscientific' and

The crucial tests of the Bollgard cotton seeds, undertaken by the state Agricultural Department, yielded a hundred per cent germination. The seed caused havoc among the country's farming community

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has successfully developed Elisa diagnostic kits for two dreaded cattle diseases Brucellosis and Infectious Bovine Ehinotracheitis (IBR) which are

Upasi cheif: Inaugurating a three-day plantation crop symposium - PLACROSYM XIII, United Planters Association of Southern India (Upasi) president Jacob Thomas said at least a few plantation crops

One way of raising India's agricultural productivity, which stands at an abysmally low 1.6 tonnes per hectare, is to make available high yielding seeds to farmers. Farmers, too, are preferring hybrid

Environmental group, Greenpeace, said in Mexico that genetically modified corn imports from the US posed a threat to Mexico's corn crop, a butterfly reserve and public

Crops around the world today yield a bounty that was unimaginable only a few decades ago. For many millions of people, the development of a hardier, more productive crops has been a lifesaver. But an