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A project seeks to build commercial benefits from innovations, both within the agri-research system and outside
Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 14, 2010, 0:16 IST

The launch of the World Bank-assisted National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) four years ago marked a new chapter in agricultural research.

MoU facilitates use of scientific equipment by both institutions

TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Centre for Catalysis Research (NCCR), a Department of Science and Technology funded centre at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for developing research and other related activities in crop science.

The MoU provides for exchang

With rise in temperature due to climate change, agricultural scientists have called for speedy development of various stress resistance varieties of rice for sustaining production in future.

The Maharashtra government on Sunday gifted five acres of land to veteran paddy innovator-farmer Dadaji Khobragade at his native village in Chandrapur district.

Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar met the septuagenarian, twice recipient of the National Innovation Foundation

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President Pratibha Patil on Friday called for the need to develop acceptable

THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has requested Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to revoke the permission given for field trials of genetically-modified (GM) rubber in Kottayam.

'Express' had reported that the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), at a meeting held on November 15, had given its approval to the Rubber Researc