300 million sub-Saharan Africans could go hungry due to Fall Armyworm

A pest that feeds on sorghum, millet and maize will cause severe destruction to crops if left unchecked, warns the Food and Agriculture Organization

THERE IS NO JUSTICE

E VIJAYALAKSHMI and RUHANI KAUR travel around Padre village, Kasargod district, Kerala and find what living with endosulfan has done to the area …

Earwigs are the hero single mothers of the insect world – and good for your garden too

They are nature’s pest controllers

Parasite to control locust

A parasite found in locust hindgut inhibits its ability to swarm

Urea coated with neem

Bt microbe needs a little help from friends

Dial 100

Something for GM rallyists

Bt crops are durable agriculture if the refuge policy is strong  

Call to action: Pest control actors should join hands to curtail harmful impact of rodents on India’s food production

Ecologically based rodent management has great opportunity to be adopted in the states of Madhya Pradesh & Jharkhand

Climate change to make pests hungrier, cause more crop loss

Warmer climate will increase the metabolic rate of insects making them devour more crops

SC directs Centre to submit status report on ban of pesticides

These pesticides have been banned in other countries; but in India, they are being allowed to use & could pose serious health hazards to farmers

Beetle's taste for sunflowers alarms experts

Scientists fear the Mexican beetle, introduced to counter the adverse effects of a weed, may destroy the sunflower crop.

Cotton Curse: Pheromone-based mating disruption technology may help control pink bollworm

Experiments show 90% reduction in losses, improved yield

Cotton Curse: Damage by pink bollworm to Bt Cotton worst in two decades

Farmers say damage by pink bollworm worse than American bollworm for which the Bt Cotton hybrid was created  

Locust repellents

The insect dislikes crops rich in nitrogen and proteins

Monsanto pulled up

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Bag the bug

Slippery dog bowl better than bait chemicals at killing bed bugs

Bt gene harms GM plant

New answers to old questions on biosafety of GM crops

African invasion

Global agribusiness

Deadly shortcomings

Estimates of short-term pesticide exposure require revision

Green light given

Biodiversity: Animals protect humans against diseases

Are pets better therapy than expensive drugs?

Technology needs stewardship

Keshav Raj Kranthi, an entomologist by training, is director of the Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur. He has developed an extensive …

Bangladesh's GM gamble

Anil Chandra Mahanta, one of the first 20 farmers to cultivate genetically modified brinjal in South Asia, does not understand the new technology.…