Africa agriculture trade monitor 2023
The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including
Cotton
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Economics and efficiency of organic farming vis--vis conventional farming in India
Organic farming systems have attracted increasing attention over the last one decade because they are perceived to offer some solutions to the problems currently besetting the agricultural sector. Organic farming has the potential to provide benefits in terms of environmental protection, conservation of non-renewable resources and improved food quality.
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Maharashtra ignoring Vidarbha farmers
Mumbai: In a short span of 12 days, 25 farmers have committed suicide in the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha, thus exposing the failure of the state government in tackling the agrarian crisis effectively.
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Everyone Wants Wheat And Rice
It is only 8 am, but India
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Gathering Storm
UNLESS THE prices of vegetables skyrocket and become a scandal
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Brazil takes aim at US intellectual property in cottondispute
Upping the ante in a long-running trade spat with the United States, Brazil announced that it intends to break US patents and intellectual property rights in retaliation against Washington
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Bollworm in Gujarat Bt cotton: Scientist says data wrong
While Bt technology giant Monsanto has admitted that American pink bollworm has affected Bt cotton in four districts of Gujarat, India
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Of choices and dilemmas: Bt cotton and self-identified organic cotton farmers in Gujarat
Many proponents of organic farming, including well-known activists and NGOs, are vehemently opposed to the introduction of genetic engineering in agriculture and skeptical that biotechnology firms could in any way advance
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GM food already on table, courtesy cottonseed oil
Even as activists fight to keep genetically modified food off Indian menus, with Bt cotton constituting around 90 per cent of India
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Reports of Bt contamination stain premium organic cotton exports
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi February 06, 2010, 1:13 IST Widespread reports in Europe that premium organic cotton exported by India is contaminated with genetically modified (GM) cotton have tarnished the image of a fast-growing segment of the country
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Govt official lauds Bt cotton
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai January 20, 2010, 0:28 IST Genetically modified cotton