Rajasthan’s olive dream
An expensive project to grow imported olive trees is not yielding enough oil, and imposing other costs
Stage set for GM crops
Centre hastily tables Bill on biotech regulation in Parliament
States told to roll out contingency plans
Plans cover crops, poultry, livestock and fisheries; Centre allows use of funds from agriculture schemes for funding contingency plans
Legislation for a few
Benefits of the Act that encourages conservation of plants reach few farmers
India set to grow biofortified crop
Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012
The paddy compulsion
War continues between Karnataka, Tamil Nadu farmers over Cauvery water for cultivation
Farmers want support
Say they are more vulnerable due to erratic weather
Number of crop pests have increased seven-fold, says industry report
Almost 20 per cent of world’s agricultural production is lost because of post-harvest pest attacks, says joint report of FICCI and Tata …
A year on, no lessons learnt from Bihar mid day meal tragedy
Civil society calls for pesticide-free, organic food under government programmes for children while Bihar focuses on building new kitchens in …
Yellow rust strikes wheat in northern India
ICAR, agricultural universities and state agriculture departments issue advisories, alerts
‘FDI will increase farmers’ earnings by 40-50 per cent’
P Chengal Reddy is general secretary of the Consortium of Indian Farmers Association (CIFA)—an organisation that claims to represent 40 …
‘Stopping GM trials is anti-farmer’
Genetically modified (GM) mustard hybrid DMH-11 developed by Delhi University’s Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants ran into …
Parliament panel report on GM food highlights rift within government
Calls for wider discussions before allowing transgenic crops
India's genome saviours
Farmers and organisations who have won government recognition this year for conserving seeds of indigenous crops and plant species
Wheat price war
Central ministries disagree on minimum support price for wheat
Desperate for Expressway
Uttar Pradesh is set to begin work on its ambitious expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal, turning a blind eye to environmental concerns and …
Farmers demand guaranteed income
Demand farm income commission; urge political parties to make it an election issue
Gujarat drops Monsanto's hybrid maize
State was supplying the seeds under brand name Prabal to tribal farmers
Does Cry1Ac gene harm plants?
A new Indian study says yes, but scientists differ
PM should head food security bill: M S Swaminathan
Giving right to food is not enough to deliver food, say speakers at a conference on food security
Moily bats for GM trials
After he revives regulatory body for GM crops, industry demands removal of state clearances
Parliamentary committee slams regulatory system on GM crops
Says the crops have an impact on health and the environment and that these aspects were overlooked while approving Bt Brinjal trials in India
Bt brinjal: National Biodiversity Board to lodge complaint against Mahyco soon
It took two years to investigate bio-piracy allegations regarding use of indigenous brinjal varieties to create India's first transgenic …
Punjab's paddy dilemma
In 2009, Punjab became the first state in the country to enact a law banning the sowing of rice before a stipulated date. The aim was to arrest …
UN heritage status for Odisha's Koraput farming system
Indigenous knowledge and farming practices of the region's tribal people recognised for promoting food security and conserving biodiversity