The National Steering Committee (NSC) of the National Bamboo Mission (NBM), held under the chairmanship of the Secretary (Agriculture & Cooperation), Govt of India, on January 17, 2008, had approved a

Staff members of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) are carrying out research on Bt brinjal to study its impact on the soil, Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S Arumugham said on Thursday. Research is being conducted at seven agricultural universities in India on the basis of instructions from the Centre, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and TNAU. The State Government is not directly involved in the project, he added. Terming the recent protest by some environmentalists and

DERGAON

With the North-east teeming with 63 species of bamboo, which account for nearly 50 per cent of the total species of woody monocots found in India, the Deovan-based Rain Forest Research Institute here is gearing up to emerge as a

Lost for whether to boil, steam or fry? Savvy Soumya Mishra finds out THE current dieting fad is that food, when eaten raw, is healthy. But there is now a study that shows that there are foods that are more nutritious when cooked. Researchers in Italy studied preparation methods of three vegetables

THE country's best known secret on genetically modified (GM) crop has finally tumbled out of the closet. The government has been mute witness to the fact that two-thirds of the cotton produced in the country, the world's second largest raw cotton producer

Even as life science companies in seed business and vocal lobbyists for pro-genetically modified (GM) crops combine to make propagandist noises about the goodness of the technology and rapid spread of area under GM crops worldwide comes the news that pests are slowly developing resistance to transgenic crops. Currently, corn (maize), soyabean and cotton are the major field crops in which transgenic varieties have been commercialised. Cotton was the first major field GM crop to go commercial in 1996 in the US. Incidentally, the US is the world's largest producer of soyabean and corn.