Lignin from agro waste helps make useful nanocomposites

Lignin is a complex organic polymer rich in polyphenols with antimicrobial qualities

Poor soil, global warming

The downside of using combine harvesters

World Bank funds for agricultural research

India set to grow biofortified crop

Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012

Flood resistance rice comes to rescue

Mobile soil nutrient tester

The soil meter will be available in four months; cost: Rs 5,000

Weedy resistance

Science and Technology - Briefs

Desi cotton to the rescue

CICR banks on traditional solutions to Vidarbha’s cotton crisis

IIT-K scientists design mobile pesticide sprayer that runs on solar energy

The device will save labour and time for small and marginal farmers

Rajasthan opens farm gates

State ties up with Monsanto, other biotech giants to restructure agriculture

Whose germplasm is it?

NBA struggles to frame case against Mahyco in first biopiracy case

Weighty task

It is not easy to measure nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, emitted from Indian farms

Heavy metals, light target

A floating plant shows Kolkata wetlands are turning toxic

Chhattisgarh proactive in checking illegal BT rice trials

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Knowledge initiative on Agriculture bad for farmers

Brief

Supreme Court criticized for giving clearance to Bt Brinjal

Science & Technology - Briefs

India's strategies for rice congress

New polyhouse technology to help cultivate off-season crops

Wheat varieties susceptible to new strains of yellow rust fungus: study

This infection is capable of causing up to 70 per cent decline in wheat yields

Letters