Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

India's research on forage crops fails to avert fodder shortage

But it does churn out some unconventional alternatives

Bt for Better Times?

Good weather, illegal Bt seeds raise Punjab's sagging cotton yields

Man who authored green revolution dies at 95

Modified to work

Salinity of black cotton soils can now be measured easily

Putting out new shoots

Whether it's increasing yields, cutting growth time of plants, increasing their resistance to disease or preserving genetic resources, scientists …

Bitten by the betel

Paan is the delicacy among all communities in India. Its cultivation and propagation will serve to strengthen not just the various rituals …

Seed congress surreptitiously endorses transgenic varieties

did the World Seed Congress-2003 -- held under a cloak of secrecy in Bangalore from June 7 to 11 -- have a hidden agenda? It transpires that the …

Ragi is back - but only as exotica

No body knows for sure how the ragi bandwagon started, but all of a sudden the urban elite became curious about the grain. Today, it is being …

Askew

As Parliament mulls the Seeds Bill 2004, there is intense opposition to it. It's likely the government will redraft it. sopan joshi and sourav …

"We have to produce more rice using less water"

Robert Zeigler, director general of the Manila, Phillipines-based, International Rice Research Institution (IRRI) talks to Sourav Mishra about …

Upturned harvest

On a trip on the outskirts of Jaipur RAVLEEN KAUR finds farmers making money by following an unconventional practice

GM and the superhero

Wheaticide

Herbicide promotes toxic fungi

Breeding insects to eat crop pests

Virus scare

GM cotton less profitable than non-GM variety

Bollworm ignores high doses of insecticide

News for farmers

No more GM in Kolhapur fields

Coconut capital

Toddy tappers in Kerala fought off social stigma and repression only to fight new demons like the government's excise policy

Monsoon 2022: Agriculture sector shed nearly 8 million jobs in June

Sluggish monsoon; area sown down 15%; rural employment stares at meltdown

Hands off the cane

With mechanical assistance, Indian sugar cane cultivators can give their backs a break

Cheap solution to labour

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