Marauding insects have usually been dealt with by using pesticides in the 20th century, but another method of control is gaining widespread acceptance--using natural enemies of the unwanted insects

Six farmers from Punjab will soon leave for Burkina Faso for taking up agriculture and passing on technology to the farmers of that

Marauding insects have usually been dealt with by using pesticides in the 20th century, but another method of control is gaining widespread acceptance--using natural enemies of the unwanted insects

Scientists have shown that plants can be genetically modified to tolerate high-temperature streets. In a recent issue of Plant Journal, N Murata and colleagues at the National Institute of Basic

A three-day national conference on "Wild Relatives of Cultivated Plants in Nepal" will be held on June 2-4, a press release issued by the Green Energy Mission (GEM)-Nepal said. The release says, "The

Vagaries of the weather have played havoc with the apple crop this season. The state, which recorded the highest-ever production of the fruit last year, may have the lowest ever output this year. As

The governments of USA and Italy have donated $ 1 million to the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) to promote farm research-oriented activities in the country, Dawn learnt on Saturday. In

Agriculture researchers and scientists said that it is due to the extensive research works carried out by the Nepal Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) that different kinds of crops can now be grown

Army worms are threatening crop and livestock production across central and eastern Africa, officials said. The worms, a variety of caterpillar native to the region with a voracious appetite for

The Punjab (Pakistan) government has decided to launch a campaign from third week of May to check marketing of substandard zinc sulphate used by farmers to get high yield of rice crop. The decision