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

Even though there are bright prospects of a bumper wheat crop in Uttar Pradesh, farmers' mood in the state is anything but buoyant. With the Food Corporation of India(FCI) yet to begin procurement of

The 2 Kennedy Round (KR) project, the Japanese Government-funded project for providing Aid for Increased Food Production, proposed for the Kuppam region of Andhra Pradesh, is expected to be fully

The International Tea Convention is scheduled to take place in Kochi on September 6 and