Gas crisis hits Bangladesh

Seed bill retake

Monitor seed prices, not just quality, say farmer groups  

Who benefits most from US-China trade war: Chinese ‘province’ Taiwan

American consumers pay more now; imports from others significantly up; no gains for US Inc: UNCTAD report 

Hopes in bloom

Sikkim’s tryst with floriculture marks a new beginning for small growers, but poor market access and a flush of imported breeds may mar its …

New US rules on food imports

It has been nine months since the US began its search for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Although nothing was found,…

Unsafe or secure?

Amid the gloom surrounding RJF data, an experiment in Haryana gives some hope

Birds of a feather

Is the RJF extinct in the wild?

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Treated like cattle

A drawn out court case raises questions about India's animal quarantine managers

Syngenta for import of its genetically modified maize

Syngenta charts new GMpath

India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture

On tenterhooks in Geneva

'We are unable to produce quality seeds'

India is facing a shortage of pulses. Untimely rains have caused their prices to rise by up to 64 per cent in 2014-15. Experts say we need to …

Why save the rooster?

In 1996, about 14,000 million tonnes of meat came from the chicken alone. Rare indigenous breeds are extremely hardy and provide more protein and …

Anti-GM suit in Pakistan

Pyrrhic victory

Maharashtra to dispose of rotten imported wheat

In the red

Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant's poisonous tubers to …

Regreening of Japan

The Japanese have regenerated their forests twice after their large-scale destruction. But today, it is doing so at the cost of tropical forests …

National rubber policy must protect growers, urges planters’ association

There are over one million rubber growers in the country

Mad cow scare

Exporting toxicity

Chemicals banned in the US as poison are shipped to developing nations as pesticides

AC makers unsure about gas import rule

Kerala coconut industry gets a breather

Red roving fowl

India, which gave the red jungle fowl, the mother of all poultry to the rest of the world, is now importing poultry from outside and destroying …