Draft Seeds Bill, 2019
The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft
Seeds
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PSC approves 13 new varieties of various crops
<p> Punjab Seed Council (PSC) has approved 13 new varieties of various crops for cultivation including five wheat varieties Dhara-B-2011, Punjab-2011, Millet-2011, NARC-2011, Aas 2011 and one sugarcane
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Ensuring food security: 'Pakistan can take advantage of Chinese experience
Pakistan can take advantage of Chinese experience to ensure food security as China is feeding around 21 percent of world population by just bringing four percent of the total global area under crops.
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Cotton breeders fear GM backlash
New Delhi Since the introduction of genetically modified (GM) cotton crop, which accounts more than 90% in the total area under cotton in the country, there has been a fear of genetic erosion and loss of biodiversity, a group of reputed cotton breeders have expressed. While acknowledging the fact that after introduction of GM cotton seeds in 2002 the country
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Government misleading farmers on seeds supply
BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday slammed the Government for misleading the farmers on the supply of certified seeds. Though the Government fixed a target to supply 6.12 lakh quintals of quality seeds to the farmers during this kharif, it only provided 4.19 lakh quintals. While there is good demand for Swarna, Lalat and Khandagiri variety of seeds, the BJP alleged that the O
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The seed and agricultural biotechnology industries in India
Since the late 1980s, technological advances and policy reforms have opened up new opportunities for growth in India’s seed and agricultural biotechnology industries. The impacts of such changes have been
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The Green Revolution: Past success and future challenges
During the late 1950s and early 1960s food deficits India has been requiring importation of 3 to 4 million tons of grain per year. However because of bad monsoons in 1965 and 1966, imports exploded unpwardly
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Farmers rights under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act of India
Independent India inherited a structure of landholdings characterised by heavy concentration of cultivable areas in the hands of relatively large absentee landowners, the excessive fragmentation of small
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Egyptian Seeds Are Linked to E. Coli in Germany and France
European investigators fitting together the puzzle pieces of devastating E.
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Seeds of Change
Seed is the only part of the agricultural chain that is growing at 20% a year and is insulated from both government subsidies and weather vagaries.
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French E. Coli Episode Seems Isolated, Officials Say
The French authorities said Sunday that the latest outbreak of a deadly strain of E.