The agriculture ministry is worried that the area under wheat cultivation has gone down by one million hectare from last year's 26 million hectare. The fall in average will affect wheat cultivation,

Opposition parties as well as some sections of the ruling Congress(I) oppose the Goa government's proposed move to dole out the state's forest land on lease to Reliance-Salgaonkar Ltd (RSL) for

MNCs : Four major plant breeders from Germany, Netherlands and France have threatened to deny access to new rose varieties to Indian floriculturists if there is no improvement in the protection of

The recent rediscovery of natural medicine, often referred to as complementary or alternative medicine, by the Western World, has fuelled the sharply escalating commercial demand for herbal products

Making agri-businuss sense : The Reliance Group is strategically locating land in Madhya Pradesh and Goa to develop wastelands for agro-business. It is believed to be buying huge chunks of

A major hurdle in the way of Goa's power privatisation process has been removed last week with the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court dismissing a writ petition which challenged the power purchase

The 250-million sterling UK environment consultancy and systems major, AEA Technology Plca is keen to make a foray into India.

A team led by the National Research Development Corporation, which included scientists from the Indian Tuber Crop Research Institute, Kayamkullam, IIT (Khargpur), IPCL, Baroda, has developed a

With unseasonal rains in December affecting crops in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, cotton production has been downscaled to 164 lakh bales this season (October-September) , a United States

Tata Iron & Steel Company Ltd. has received a return on environment (ROE) partership award from Betzdearborn for improvement to the water management systems at its Jamshedpur works that have