Drought is threatening Bangladesh's premier rice crop again after last year's devastating floods swept away millions of tonnes, a leading economist said. "Our hopes for a quick agricultural recovery

The health department of Gujarat has seized 19.2 lakh banned oxytocin injections which are unauthorisedly sold to cattle owners to raise milk

Large-scale unauthorised trade in Oxytocin injections, used by farmers to increase milk yield of cattle, has been unearthed in Gujarat.

About 70% of South East Asia's people live in the countryside and farming remains a vital part of the economy. Last year, nature's biggest victims were Indonesia and Philippines, which in 1997 and

The arecanut farmers in Kerala are struggling to fight an unmanageable yellowing disease of the trees in the arecanut belt, which has cut down the crop by 50 per cent. The arecanut cultivation has

Use of oxytocin injections, a human female hormone to draw more on large scale milk from cows and buffaloes is causing grave concern to the Haryana government.

Drought is threatening Bangladesh's premier rice crop again after last year's devastating floods swept away millions of tonnes, a leading economist said on

Arable land in Bangladesh is fast depleting due to human settlement at an increasing rate every year. Human settlement specially for housing has been identified as the main reason for the contraction

The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Rs. 6.03-crore scheme to help coconut farmers fight insects gnawing at the heads of coconut

The trial began of seven environmentalists charged with damaging a genetically modified sugar-beet crop in Ireland last June. The case is the first of its kind in Ireland and comes after similar