Agriculture

Seminar on agri produce enrichment from today

Mangalore, DHNS:

NABARD Regional Training College in Mangalore will be organising a national seminar on 'Agri Produce Enrichment' on October 13 and 14.

According to a press release, the seminar with the slogan

Publication Date: 
13/10/2008
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Agricultural Systems, Karnataka
Agriculture

Innovative Dutch

THE Netherlands, a small country in Europe with a population smaller than 16 million, is the second largest exporter of agricultural and horticultural produce in the world after the United States.

Publication Date: 
10/10/2008
John Cherian
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Agricultural Systems, Pesticides, Vegetables, Netherlands
Agriculture

Spatial variability of soil properties & its application in predicting surface map of hydraulic parameters

Knowledge of spatial variation of soil properties is important

Publication Date: 
10/10/2008
Priyabrata Santra, U. K. Chopra, Debashis Chakraborty
Current Science
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7
937
Tags:
Soil Capability, Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Irrigation, Hydrology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), India
Agriculture

What lies beneath

More creatures live in soil than any other environment on Earth. But what are they all doing there? A report on the world

Publication Date: 
09/10/2008
Amber Dance
Nature
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724
Tags:
Ecosystems, Soil Resources, Soil Capability, Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Biodiversity
Agriculture

Training programme held on maize hybrid seed production

Importance of maize as a food as well as fuel crop stressed

Tuticorin: Training camps were conducted recently to inculcate the techniques of maize hybrid seed production among farm women in the villages Kalkumi, A.Kumarapuram of Vilathikulam block and Sankaralingapuram, Vembur of Pudhur block in Tuticorin district by the Agricultural College and Research Institute, Killikulam.

Publication Date: 
08/10/2008
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Seeds, Maize, Tamil Nadu, Tuticorin
Agriculture

GM crops led to suicides, says Charles

LONDON

Publication Date: 
07/10/2008
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agricultural Research, GM Crops, GMOs, India
Agriculture

Conservation agriculture

Surinder Sud / New Delhi October 07, 2008, 0:12 IST

New farming technologies can help not only improve land productivity, but also reverse climate change.

Publication Date: 
07/10/2008
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Agricultural Systems
Agriculture

Romping through maize diversity

A computer whiz turned geneticist borrows tactics from Wal-Mart and cattle breeders to manage what may be the world's largest genetic analysis.

Publication Date: 
03/10/2008
Elizabeth Pennisi
Science
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40
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Plant Breeding, Maize, Scientists, United States Of America (US)
Agriculture

International agricultural research for food security, poverty reduction, and the environment

This paper utilizes two different approaches to assess the impact of significantly scaling up investment in public agricultural research in developing countries in general, and in the CGIAR in particular. First, it models the potential impact of doubling research investment on agricultural (food) production and poverty reduction, and also on international food prices.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Joachim von Braun, Shenggen Fan, & et al, Ruth Meinzen-Dick
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Environment, Agricultural Research, Poverty, Global, Developing Countries, Food Security, Agriculture
Agriculture

Seed aid, agribusiness and the food crisis

The world food crisis, rapidly defined by those in power as a problem of insufficient production, has become a trojan horse to get corporate seeds, fertilisers and, surreptitiously, market systems into poor countries. As past experience shows, what looks like

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Seedling
0
0
4
Tags:
Agriculture, Green Revolution, Agricultural Research, Seeds, Food Prices, Food Supply, Aid, Agro-Based Industry, Private Sector, FAO, Developing Countries, Food Security

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