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,
A day after the Union Cabinet okayed the move to ban cow slaughter across the country, Kerala became the first state to oppose the proposed law, saying beef constituted nearly 40 per cent of the
This Bill could have been drafted by the VHP. In this parliamentary session, before the upcoming assembly polls in November, the government is set to shepherd legislation that proposes a nationwide
The Madhya Pradesh Government is actively considering to declare cow as the "State animal". Revealing this during a function, Chief Minister Digvijay Singh said the related proposal was under
The Nadukkara Agro Processing Company (NAPC), a Kerala-based farmers' venture, is in a diversification mode. The company is into manufacture of pineapple juice and concentrate under the brand
Every now and then the Bharatiya Janata Party comes up with a policy announcement that reveals how embedded is the antediluvian thinking on economic and social issues within its ranks. Even as an
The Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister V. Sobhanadreeswara Rao said that the state government would soon come up with a Biofertilisers Monitoring and Quality Control Bill on the lines of the
The Bogipahar Rubber Plantation Association, Sonapur, Assam, said large-scale encroachment on the sprawling 1,000 bighas of land reserved for rubber plantation and establishment of the Rubber
The proposed central legislation to ban cow slaughter has predictably kicked up a ruckus, with the governments of Kerala, West Bengal and Meghalaya indicating their unhappiness at such a move. Of
In a bid to improve the living conditions of the country's plantation sector the Government has decided to grant land to plantation workers living in linerooms. Accordingly, state land in all
The Chinese government has pledged its fullest support to develop and restructure Sri Lanka's agricultural sector when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met the Chinese Agricultural Minister Du
