A three-day workshop of D-8 countries on "Food Security" organised jointly by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock and Foreign Affairs, will be held here from November 24 to 26. The

Keeping down on disease-carrying pests without poisoning the environment is an important balancing act. Household insects like mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies and fleas have to be controlled to stop

Dan Glickman, US agriculture secretary, yesterday said he expected agreement on a mandate for talks on liberalising farm trade when World Trade Organisation ministers meet in Seattle at the end of

The Nagarjuna Agricultural Research and Development Institute (Nardi), belonging to the Nagarjuna group in Hyderabad, has come out with seven superior hybrids in cotton and two superior hybrids in

The Supreme Court admitted a public interest litigation (PIL) writ petition from the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE) challenging the first major open field trials of

Saline water inundation of coastal Orissa after the October 29 super cyclone has rendered a large chunk of agricultural land in the State unfit for cultivation, according to crop experts. They have

Istanbul Technical University and Beykent University of Turkey in collaboration with the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, are organising the 2nd international symposium Agroenviron-2000 on

Orissa was heading for a bumper rice crop when it was hit by the recent cyclone, says the Additional Statistical Adviser at the Ministry of Agriculture's National Crop Forecasting Centre, Dr. Rajiv

USDA announced that it was creating a reference lab to test the validity of processes used to detect genetically-modified traits in grains and

FAO : The number of people going hungry in the developing world has fallen by 40 million in five years, but faster action is needed to meet an international pledge to halve world hunger by 2015, the

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