NHAI burns midnight oil, farmers won't see light'
From Hosur near Bangalore to Ranipeth near Chennai, the highway is being built on the strength of nearly 6,000 farmers who have signed consent letters since last year, and overriding protests of
From Hosur near Bangalore to Ranipeth near Chennai, the highway is being built on the strength of nearly 6,000 farmers who have signed consent letters since last year, and overriding protests of
Nandan Agro Farms Pvt Ltd, engaged in cultivation and marketing of medicinal plants and products, has forged an alliance with ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd to extend insurance cover to
In continuation with the Bush Administration's aggressive push to open foreign markets to US agricultural products, the US Department of Agriculture has appointed private sector nominees to seven key
Canadian Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew said this week there is no scientific evidence to support the European Union's five-year-old ban on new genetically modified foods. "We want them to apply
The European Commission said this week it was prepared to work on a new trade deal with Canada, just as the country backed a U.S. attack on the EU's policy on genetically modified foods in a trade
Drawing inspiration from a two-year European Union-sponsored Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme in cotton fields, farmers in several remote villages of Raichur, Bagalkot and Bellary districts
The annual group meeting of the All India Coordinated Research Programme on Weed Control was held recently, in the Jorhat campus of Assam Agricultural University, according to a press release. The
The Chhattisgarh government has sought a Rs 400 crore loan from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) to finance construction of roads, bridges and irrigation projects.
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and Unicef will jointly develop a state-specific action plan for the 'clean milk production programme' for implementation in five years through co-operative
To encourage farmers to take to cash crops instead of the traditional wheat and paddy crops, the district administration, in coordination with the Agriculture Department, has decided to organise
The Government has decided to increase the financial relief for gaushalas in the cow belt to Rs 40 crores, the Union Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh, said while handing over cheques amounting to Rs
The control of the diamond black moth in cabbage crops has long been a challenge for scientists and farmers. Over the last three-four decades, many chemical pesticides have made spectacular promises
The Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, has launched the country's first course on organic farming, according to a university release. The one-year post-graduate
A section of basmati rice exporters and research scientists have expressed concern over the use of biotechnology for creating transgenic varieties. Dr B. Mishra, Project Director, Directorate of Rice
In tune with the changing needs, 99 cotton varieties are likely to be de-notified by the Union Government. A move towards this has been made with the All-India Co-ordinated Cotton Improvement Project
The five-day International Coconut Summit 2003 here has emphasised the need for comprehensive plans for tapping the vast and diverse potential of the coconut sector as an industry. Each and every
B Mishra, the project director of the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR), Hyderabad, has called upon rice researchers to exercise self-restraint in pursuing transgenic research on basmati rice, part
Caught in a cycle of debt and crop failures, hundreds of farmers in and around Kanpur have threatened to commit suicide. The farmers, who face burgeoning loans, are being chased by tehsil revenue
Indian Farm Forestry Development Cooperative Ltd (IFFDC) has bagged IMC Diamond Jubilee Endowment Trust Award, 2002, titled "Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development Award" of Indian Merchants'
Soyabean varieties resistant to Asian rust fungus could be on sale in Brazil's main producer States in time for the 2004-05 harvest, researchers said. The highly contagious, wind-spread disease was