Disease hits organge output
Eighty years after they started producing the world famous big juicy oranges, the Mizo orange cultivators in the Jampui hills are now beset with a problem that may eventually abolish all the orange
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Japan may revoke ban on Indian mango
Japan is likely to lift the ban on import of Indian managoes after India has successfully conducted vapour heat treatment to eliminate beetles present in the fruits, S M Acharya, joint secretary in
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Indian scientists develop transgenic cotton seeds
Indian scientists have succeeded in developing transgenic cotton varieties, breaking US giant Monsanto's monopoly on genetically-engineered cotton seeds. Containing the fatal Bt gene derived from a
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N-E rubber plantations affected by diseases
The rubber plantations in the north-eastern States are now under the attack of various diseases such as oidium SLF, pink and secondary lead fall.Mizoram, Assam and Meghalaya are the States where the
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Winds of fortune on South-East Asia's farms
About 70% of South East Asia's people live in the countryside and farming remains a vital part of the economy. Last year, nature's biggest victims were Indonesia and Philippines, which in 1997 and
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Punjab, Haryana to have bumper wheat crop
Punjab and Haryana, which form the bread basket of the country, are set to harvest a bumper wheat crop of 214.95 lakh tonnes against 202.60 lakh tonnes last year. This would offset the losses
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UP farmers face distress selling
Even though there are bright prospects of a bumper wheat crop in Uttar Pradesh, farmers' mood in the state is anything but buoyant. With the Food Corporation of India(FCI) yet to begin procurement of
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Drought brewing trouble for tea industry
A severe drought has hit both the northern and southern tea gardens of the country. This has jeopardised the production prospects for the current year. This year's output for March is expected to
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Antibiotics in farm creating superbugs
Farmers who lace animal feed with antibiotics to bulk up livestock and prevent infections are creating drug-resistant bacteria that could cause serious illnesses among humans, a Canadian medical
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Arecanut farmers face uncertainty as disease threatens crop
The arecanut farmers in Kerala are struggling to fight an unmanageable yellowing disease of the trees in the arecanut belt, which has cut down the crop by 50 per cent. The arecanut cultivation has
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Drought threatens Bangladesh rice crop
Drought is threatening Bangladesh's premier rice crop again after last year's devastating floods swept away millions of tonnes, a leading economist said on
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Salt water ends Kutch farmers' dream
Increased salinity has spelt doom for thousands of farmers in villages like Tunda, Sirachi, Kandagara, Bhaliyam, Gundiyari, Tagdim, Dhrub and Navinal - along the Gulf of Kutch. Groundwater, which is
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Greenpeace scores victory over gene free food supply
Greenpeace International recently scrored victory on account of two developments in the area of genetically modified free food supply. One of them was regarding Monsanto, which announced that it had
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India faces problem of plenty in foodgrains
With public granaries already full, the prospects of a record foodgrain harvest this year-- breaching the 200 million tonne mark-- may pose problems for the country's food managers in the next few
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Brits blanch at genetically-modified food
Casting a wary eye over a rack of glistening fowl adorning a Chinatown restaurant window, Brian Hinton scratched his chin and gave voice to the British public's deep suspicion about what ends up
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Trial for experimental-crop damage begins
The trial began of seven environmentalists charged with damaging a genetically modified sugar-beet crop in Ireland last June. The case is the first of its kind in Ireland and comes after similar
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Britain's biggest farmer pulls out of gene trials
Britain's biggest farmer has decided not to take part in proposed new field trials of genetically modified crops. "Few people would disagree that what is required are properly conducted scientific
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Rhone-Poulenc in gene-rice research pact
Rhono-Poulenc Agro has said it had signed a research agreement with the Singapore-based Institute of Molecular Agro-biology(IMA) on genetic engineering of disease resistance in
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WTO keen on Asian laws for new varieties of crops
Even as farmers' protests against multinational companies are increasing, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) met in Bengkok, Thailand, last week to work on an agenda to make Asian governments enact
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Need to bring new areas under wheat
By the year 2020 India would need about 109 million tonnes of wheat to feed its population that would touch 1.3 billion mark by the time, this was stated by Dr S Nagarjan, Director, Wheat Research