The World Trade Organisation today approved US sanctions against the European Union in a long-running Banana import dispute. EU representatives told the WTO they wouldn't oppose the $191.4 million a

The United Nations Development Programme is helping to develop India's capacity to engage in pest free safe trade in plants and plant products. A regional forum opened on Monday at the plant

With weeks remaining for the cultivation of mustard, farmers and oil producers are still awaiting an answere on how argemone came to be mixed with mustard last year, causing dropsy epidemic in Delhi

EU accepts US sanctions: The European Union ambassador to the World Trade Organisation said on Monday Vrussels would accept the imposition by the US of sanctions costing $191.4 millions in the banana

Farmers in Punjab are under a debt of Rs 5700 crore and are paying an annual interest of Rs 1200 per acre

The coffee wilt disease that has destroyed millions of coffee trees in central and western Uganda over the past six years has finally spread to the east. The disease reported for the first time in

According to Malhusian predictions some years ago, the world should be unable to feed itself by now. Thankfully, such forecasts have so far proved false, based on hybrid seeds, increased use of

Greedy rats, which eat enough rice in Indonesia each year to feed 25 million people, may be about to meet their match: a trap they can enter, but not leave. The trap, similar to a lobster pot, is

The watershed development programme in Beitul district of Madhya Pradesh launched four years ago has evoked a mixed response. While there are obvious benefits for the landed sections, the plight of

The people who put organically grown food on to American tables sold a record $5 billion-worth of their produce in 1997 and could push that up to over $6 billion last year. But organic farmers still