A group of environmental activists yesterday lost its bid to debate the rights and wrongs of genetically modified crops in open court when three appeal judges rules in favour of the US biotech

Uncertainty among US farmers over whether to sow genetically modified (GM) seeds next year has risen following a stark warning by a coalition of farm groups that they could be putting their

The Supreme court has admitted a public interest litigation challenging permission for the first major open field trials of transgenic crops involving the planting of genetically engineered/modified

Margot Wallstrom, European Union Environment Commissioner, warned that the EU would be taken to court unless it tried to end a de facto moratorium on licensing genetically modified

More than 250,000 Tibetan farmers and herdsmen in the Tibet Autonomous Prefecture of Hainan, northwest China's Qinghai Province, have benefitted from a four-year agricultural comprehensive

Several years ago Dutch farmers who switched to organic farming were a small band of believers whose products were restricted to specialist health food shops. These days, organics are going

The Maharashtra government has finally introduced the much awaited crop insurance scheme in the state with immediate effect, according to agriculture minister Ranjit Deshmukh. The scheme which was

Britain will host an international conference in February on the safety, scientific and consumer concerns about genetically modified food, a Government spokeswoman said yesterday. The meeting

An estimated 400m people worldwide suffer from Vitamin A deficiency, mostly as a result of inadequate diets. In principle, this deficiency could be alleviated through the introduction of a recently

The soyabeans China imports from the United States include genetically modified variety of beans, a U.S. trade group official