India

 Profit from an acre

Innovative farming system revives a farmer s fortune in Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu

Publication Date: 
14/09/2005
Deepa Kozhisseri
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Agricultural Systems, Organic Farming, Vermiculture, Cash Crops, Water Harvesting, India, Tamil Nadu
India

 Kalanamak

The future of Indian scented rice?

Publication Date: 
14/09/2005
Sourav Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Rice, Basmati Rice, India, Uttar Pradesh
Agriculture

 Organic triumph

Over conventional farming

Publication Date: 
30/08/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Organic Farming, Technology, Agricultural Science
Water Resources

 "We have to produce more rice using less water"

Robert Zeigler, director general of the Manila, Phillipines based, International Rice Research Institution IRRI talks to Sourav Mishra about the challenges that agricultural scientists face today

Publication Date: 
14/08/2005
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Agricultural Research, Rice, Water Resources, Biodiversity, Private Sector, Food Security
India

 Root rot

In India s agricultural research

Publication Date: 
29/06/2005
Saurav Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, India
Industry

 Blast it

Genome of rice fungus mapped

Publication Date: 
30/05/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Pest Control, Rice, United States Of America (US), Agricultural Science
India

 Poor soil, global warming

The downside of using combine harvesters

Publication Date: 
27/02/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Soil Capability, Agricultural Research, Rice, Wheat, Crop Residues, Global Warming, Waste Incineration, India
Industry

 Mighty millet

A new pearl millet variety resistant to downy mildew disease

Publication Date: 
27/02/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Plant Diseases, Millets, Agricultural Science
Poverty

 Natural resplendence

Scientists in Dharwad, Karnataka, develop coloured cotton, organically

Publication Date: 
27/02/2005
Manu Kulkarni
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Cotton, Karnataka
India

 Handling a pest, gingerly

Modus operandi of bacterial wilt uncovered

Publication Date: 
30/01/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Pest Control, Agricultural Science

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