Israeli scientists have developed a way of breeding trees able to survive the world's increasingly saline soil, and are now attempting to apply the same method to crops. The research by Arie Altman

The fertiliser industry has asked the government not to remove quantitative restrictions (QRs) on urea import under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regime saying that free imports would hurt the

ICAR : Lack of proper storage and marketing facilities result in a loss of about 3.5 to 4.5 million tonnes of potato every year, director genral, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) R S

To encourage tribal growers, the Union government has finally liberalised the export of nigerseeds from India. Private companies can now directly procure from tribals and export nigerseeds after

A unique research on buffaloes by the National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP) in Bangalore may protect this animal species in the world from certain extinction. Though the

A central government pilot project, implemented with financial support of the World Bank, intended to help farmers overcome draw-backs and adopt modern farming techniques will be implemented in four

The Karntaka state has set up an advisory network called K-Ganga(Karnataka Global Advisory Networking Group on Agriculture) to co-ordinate with the Agriculture Commission for mobilising science and

Groups of Indian farmers plan to hold a symbolic destruction of imported agricultural produce on Wednesday in the port towns of Southern India, to protest the WTO's liberalised free trade regime,

The United Planters' Association of Southern India(UPASI) has appealed to the Commerce Ministry to set up a task force to study the impact of WTO agreements on the counry's beleaguered plantation

Chinese scientists have developed a genetically modified pesticide which, it is claimed, will get rid of the most vicious pests affecting vegetable, a report said on