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

Two Chinese scientists disclosed on March 24, 1999 that Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics have successfully developed China's first transgenic test-tube ox with their own created new technical

Chinese scientists have started a major research program to help better utilize light energy in raising crop yields, in an effort to meet the food needs of the country's vast population 30 years from

The Kerala Agriculture Department has decided to revive the group farming concept by extending the same to more area in the State in an effort aimed to breath life into the morbid paddy cultivation

India has decided not to press for setting up of a dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organisation on rice exports since the European Commission has withdrawn the controversial culmulative

Two major international groups have applied for approval for the sale in Australia and New Zealand of 10 genetically engineered crops. The applications, by U.S.-based Monsanto Co and Swiss-based

India has won the trademark case against American firm Ricetec in the European Union prohibiting the use of the 'basmati' brand name by the American company, thereby giving a major push to the