Four working groups on agriculture, new issues, market access and implementation of the Singapore declaration are to be set up to resolve the deadlock in trade negotiations. This was disclosed to the

The scare of genetically modified crops is still rampant in the developing countries including India and most of Europe, but have taken deep roots in some of the rich countries like the United

While the Coffee Board is still in the process of finalising a logo for Indian Coffee, another kind of label - the Ecomark - has been mooted for the commodity. The Ministry of Environment and Forests

More than half the 9,000 milllion coconut trees in Kerala have been hit by a mite, wreaking havoc on nearly five million

The US life sciences company Monsanto has won a premanent ban on the destruction of genetically modified crops by a British group opposed to biotechnology, a Monsanto spokesman has

While the eriophyid mite Aceria guerreronis is posing a serious threat to the coconut gardens in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, researchers have come out with new genotypes for mite resistance. In the paper