Rains will soak Indonesia's crops throughout the year despite the dry season because of the continuing impact of the La Nina weather phenomenon, government and trade sources said. The dry season

The Centre would finalise its action plan for an integrated programme on 'food security' on June 5, Human sources development minister Murli Manohar Joshi said on Sunday. Joshi, who visited the

Like thousands of other farmers in Bangladesh, Gini Alam harvested his first hybrid rice crop this month. Beaming he says he has grown 30 to 40 per cent more rice in this field. Environmentalists,

U.S. farmers are planting 8 million hectares of bioengineered corn. Will it poison the monarch butterlies? : a

Punjab Ypung Farmers' Association in a resolution passed commended the decision of the Cooperative Societies' Registrar, Mr G S Pirzada, of allowing the Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies in

Genetically-modified foods are as safe as any others and there is a "compelling moral imperative" to develop them to help fight hunger in the Third World, an influential British think-tank has said.

Even as confusion persists over the proposed merger of the Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation (RCDF) into the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), the Federation has fixed an ambitious target

Confidential requests are not just placed for designer outfits they could also be placed for the production of plants of choice. One such place is Micro-Propagation Technology Park in Gurgaon which

The Austrian Government has banned the cultivation of a genetically modified maize, known as Bt Maize MON-810, produced by Monsanto Co. of the

Unprecedented drought conditions prevailing in the Darjeeling hills is threatening tea production which, it is feared, will suffer a 65 per cent loss this year. Almost 80 per cent of the first flush