Choking the gene pool

One person's weed, another's medicinal plant

Push for neem-based fertilisers

Lac grows on plant

Scientists find a way to cultivate lac that is less labourintensive and more profitable

Seed restoration

New insurance lets farmers down

Unions demand individual coverage

ICAR’s shoddy science

Inquiry panel finds Bt cotton project had serious flaws, scientists were unethical

Government's agri-research set-up is undemocratic

Cleaning the cotton stain

ICAR sets up independent investigation into Bt Bikaneri Narma research scam

Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

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

World Bank funds for agricultural research

Rajasthan scraps seed pacts

ICAR tells Rajasthan to wait for guidelines on benefit sharing, biosafety

Issue at hand

Science needs to come home -- scientists need to address the concerns of the local communities

How useful is genome decoding?

Scientists decode pigeon pea at the cost of Rs 11 crore  

It is not about farmers

Budget 2013 pushed up allocations for agriculture, but it will not help farmers

ICAR to launch tuber crops scheme in Attappady

Kerala chief minister claims it will provide food and livelihood security of tribals

Does Cry1Ac gene harm plants?

A new Indian study says yes, but scientists differ  

India downplays scare over stem rust threat to wheat crops from Uganda

ICAR chases patents for pickle

The National Research Centre on Meat has odd ideas on what can be patented

Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops

Calls for a national policy on GM crops in its report to Parliament

Scientists write to PM against ICAR ‘gag order’ on GM mustard

Health and safety of crops draw concern from scientific community

Time to nail pesticides

Centre forms expert committee to frame policy to check residues in fruits, vegetables

Indians consuming rice and wheat low in food value, high in toxins: ICAR study

DTE and CSE hold webinar on magazine’s coverage of ICAR research

Union government launches framework to promote voluntary carbon markets in agriculture

Minister Arjun Munda requests full cooperation from all quarters to promote carbon markets in the interest of farmers

Come March and 199 district agromet units will wind up, as per Centre’s order

Scientists associated with agriculture advisories in different states express concern over decsion