The Government of Bangladesh and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched two TeleFood projects in Saturia Thana, Manikgaj district. TeleFood, an initiattive of the UN's Food and
The six-member World Bank team of experts, which visited the State recently, led by task manager Handeep Single, has threatened to withdraw several schemes of the World Bank-funded Assam Rural
The genetically-modified food industry suffered another blow with the announcement that Northern Foods-chaired by Lord Haskins, a close business adviser to the prime minister - is to stop using
Kenya's livestock industry is expected to pick up this month, following the lifting of a ban by Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia imposed the ban on goat, cattle, camels, meat and skins 16 months ago, due
The Tea Board is upbeat about the prospects of organic tea. India exported 500 tonnes of organic tea last year, and hopes to double this in 1999. But why only tea? And why not have internationally
The Centre is preparing in all earnest for the possibility of transgenic plants making their way into the country. The department of biotechnology has set up a national facility for plant virus
Nature is playing havoc with the tea gardens in the hills of Darjeeling. As the area did not receive rain for nearly six months, until the first week of April, the gardens not only lost huge
Until recently, tea cultivation in India was the exclusive domain of big companies and some rich individuals. But, of late, all this has begun to change. Small scale tea cultivation has become a
Malaysia today imposed a temporary ban on all meat, eggs and diary products from the european Union following a scare over cancer-causing dioxin in some Belgian foods. The health minister said all