The central Siberian region of Novosibirsk has declared a state of emergency following an invasion of locusts from neighbouring Kazakhstan, a civil defence and emergencies department

Karnataka has rejected an offer made by the Reliance group to form cashew in the forest waste lands. This is despite the state Government and the department of Horticulture seeking an increase in

The Philippine farmers are adopting a new method of transplanting rice seedlings that offers a big reduction in the use of water and a huge saving in labour. Yields were not affected, although some

The Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) has cautioned the farmers against an imminent outbreak of late Blight disease affecting potato crop in the Himachal Pradesh, CPRI director GS Shekhawat

Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) has asked government to take pre-emptive measures to avert the chances of attack of heliothis on the cotton crop. "The heliothis has been responsible for cut in the

Russia will have enough food grain this year, though the harvest will be painfully low because of drought and forest fires, Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin said. Stepashin estimated the overall grain

While the safety of genetically modified organs(GMOs) for consumption remains controversial worldwide and labelling issues are still unresolved in Japan, rising local demand for non-GMOs have

There's money to be made when a chicken breast doused in herb sauce tastes good to humans but can kill cockroaches. That's the thinking of EcoSMART Technologies, a small privately-held Tennessee

Crop scientists at Lucknow have patented a herbal pesticide that can effectively check pest menace against a variety of stored pulses. "Small tablets of the pesticide, inserted in bullet-shaped

Don Summer's long trip from Texarkana, to NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi was the beginning of a journey that led him to find new uses for a NASA-developed technology. Nonetheless, his