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

Iraq has accused UN disarmament experts of disabling its main livestock vaccine plant by destroying 28 major pieces of equipment while looking for biological weapons. The charge by plant director,

Protests in Europe over genetically modified (GM) foods are being closely watched by the trend-setting US biotechnology industry, but appear to be casting few shadows over its booming potential. The

Brazil's government have started destroying a test plot of genetically modified rice operated by the local unit of AgrEvo, the agrochemical joint venture between Germany's Hoechst AG and Schering AG

The unprecedented dry spell for the past six months in Sikkim has damaged major cash crops, including large cardamom, ginger and