Eighty years after they started producing the world famous big juicy oranges, the Mizo orange cultivators in the Jampui hills are now beset with a problem that may eventually abolish all the orange

The rubber plantations in the north-eastern States are now under the attack of various diseases such as oidium SLF, pink and secondary lead fall.Mizoram, Assam and Meghalaya are the States where the

In a bid to control jhum cultivation and improve the economic conditions of the people in hilly areas, the Manipur Government has undertaken a programme of popularise tea as a horticulture

Breakthroughs in genetics have made it possible to improve crops in ways conventional breeders couldn't have dreamed of. After years of research and a few broken promises, a second green revolution

The UK government plans a complete overhaul of a key advisory body on genetically modified foods, following claims it is tarnished by links to the biotechnology industry. Ten of the 13 members of the

A Bhutanese agriculturist who was recently awarded doctorate by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich for his thesis work on rice blast said the disease had emerged in Bhutan because of

Over the past two decades, colonisation of the cerrados (savannahs) of Mato Grosso has turned Rondonopolis into Brazil's largest source of soya and cotton, and big producer of rice, maize and sugar.

Indian scientists have succeeded in developing transgenic cotton varieties, breaking US giant Monsanto's monopoly on genetically-engineered cotton seeds. Containing the fatal Bt gene derived from a

UPOV is the Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, an intergovernmental organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland. The UPOV Convention gives exclusive patent-like protection to

Punjab and Haryana, which form the bread basket of the country, are set to harvest a bumper wheat crop of 214.95 lakh tonnes against 202.60 lakh tonnes last year. This would offset the losses

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