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,
Pepsico is planning to launch largescale pineapple cultivation of the Hawaiian variety in Kerala by mobilising farmers and encouraging contract farming for which the US multinational will provide the
Efforts are on to find sustainable alternatives to wheat and rice in Punjab. There are two alternatives: diversification from wheat and rice to say pulses and oilseeds; and contract farming. These
The Environmental Centre of the Corporation of Cochin is preparing to extend its Green Canopy project to residential areas in Kochi city, with the help of residents associations. The Corporation
A seminar was conducted by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Kochi, on 'Safe food concept and food hygiene' at the IMA Blood Bank hall for creating an awareness on food adulteration and the
There are no signs as yet of the mini-Ministerial in Montreal having been successful in breaking the impasse on agriculture or TRIPs, although a softening of hard positions is indeed possible before
National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) (Pakistan) has launched a programme to reduce pesticide risk among women in cotton-producing areas where as many as 84 percent women cotton-pickers fall
Three farmers from Karnataka - two from Dharwad distrct and one from Haveri district - have allegedly commited suicide, unable to repay agricultural
The tobacco farmers of Andhra Pradesh who, till now, have had a reasonably comfortable life, feel threatened by the proposed anti-tobacco law. The tobacco farmers of Andhra Pradesh, numbering nearly
The Consumer Affairs Minister, Sharad Yadav, has urged the Commerce Minister, Arun Jaitley, to set up mechanisms to regulate the flow of products such as food supplements for weight loss and muscle
A majority of farmers at a public hearing here have complained that they incurred heavy losses by cultivating Bt cottonseed, produced by Mahyco-Monsanto. The Telangana Natural Resources Management
