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,
In recent years, the concept of precision farming based on a comprehensive system designed to organise agricultural production through the use of state of the art technological tools including GPS
The Farmer Organization in the Anuradhapura district complained that the funds allocated for repair ing small tanks made to farmer organizations by the Irrigation Department are reduced annually, and
Europe's dispute with America over genetically modified food escalated yesterday after Washington asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to force the EU to lift its five-year-old ban on new GM food
In the cotton fields of India, the biggest slugfestnow is between the two US corporates - Monsanto with BT cotton, and DuPont with leading pesticide brand Avaunt. The war is fundamentally about
To tap the $26 billion global organic farm products market, the central government has decided to set up a national institute of organic farming as part of the country-wide programme taken up in
India is conducting a two phased study on the economic status of farmers to gauge the impact of government policies and programmes during the last 50 years. For the first phase, titled - "State of
Leather exports may drop by $700 million if the Centre goes ahead with the cow slaughter ban, the Chairman of the Council for Leather Exports, Mr S.S. Kumar, has said. He told presspersons after the
The Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, has said that the Government will announce a comprehensive relief package for the benefit of the drought-affected farmers
About 100 milch cattle have falled ill after consuming contaminated water of a pond in Gangwa vilalge, near Hisar. It is reported that rain ater mixed with sewage was drained towards thepond and
The Gujarat government seems all set to implement its power sector reforms. notwithstanding the Congress agitation against the tariff hike and the increasing suspicions of the BJP affiliate Bharatiya
