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

A delegation of Indian farmers will be at the Seattle world trade talks this month-end to protest against a proposed regime seen as seeking to introduce fancy patent and subsidy concepts sure to

in the first week of October, the Thol reservoir in the Mehsana district of Gujarat witnessed another episode of human-avian conflict. Thousands of

Worried about growing resistance to genetically modified foods, some of the world's biggest biotechnology companies have decided to mount a huge lobbying and marketing campaign to counter their

The super cyclone of October 29 that swept across part sof eastern India, especially the coastal state of Orissa, has severely damaged at least two major laboratories and caused a major setback to

The Indian tea industry has got mired in a controversy with the Sunday Morror, London, recently reporting the useof child labour in Indian tea plantations. The issue has been further complicated by

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is planning to introduce the organic cotton agriculture to check the growing menace of environmental degradation caused due to use of chemicals by the farmers and