Seed companies are taking an array of patents on 'traitor' technology afar more insidious than terminator technology, a report from a canadian non-governmental organization has warned. While the

A worldwide shortage of jute during 1999-2000 growing season, which runs from June to June, looks likely as a result of a severe drought and sowing work in India and Bangladesh, the two largest

Official denials notwithstanding, a serious payment crisis is threatening to upset the ongoing wheat procurement operations in Punjab. Although the state government and official procurement agencies

Ostrich farming is booming in China. On a plain about 30km north of central Beijing, China State Farms Agribussiness Group Corp. runs an ostrich farm. The company, operating under the Ministry of

Passco has chalked out a master plan to protect the fresh stock of wheat from ravages of insects, and pests and weather hazards across Pakistan. Unfolding the distinctive features of the Passco plan

Thousands of farmers livelihood as their land has been rendered productive due to salinity. The sugar lobby and excess use of water for sugarcane farming are partly to blame for the serious damage,

The large-scale practice of shifting cultivation (jhum) in the hilly terrains of Goalpara district and adjoining Garo hills bordering Assam has not only reduced the bio-diversity but also caused soil

Scanty rainfall since November last year has dealt a severe blow to agricultural and tea production in Assam. While crop loss has been estimated at about Rs 200 crore, the shortfall in tea production

The Boghall raid was one of many decontamination of gene-altered farm sites by protestors during the past year, many of them resulting in arrests. In England, Scotland and Ireland, at least three

Cuban farmers were hard hit when Soviet aid ended. Farming practice was much like that of Eastern Europe. Fuel, machines, pesticides and fertilisers came from the Soviet block. When the Soviet aid