Increased salinity has spelt doom for thousands of farmers in villages like Tunda, Sirachi, Kandagara, Bhaliyam, Gundiyari, Tagdim, Dhrub and Navinal - along the Gulf of Kutch. Groundwater, which is
Greenpeace International recently scrored victory on account of two developments in the area of genetically modified free food supply. One of them was regarding Monsanto, which announced that it had
The draft agriculture policy has been reviewed by the Prime Minister long back and has already been sent to the state governments for seeking their concurrence. The draft policy will be tabled in
Britain's biggest farmer has decided not to take part in proposed new field trials of genetically modified crops. "Few people would disagree that what is required are properly conducted scientific
Rhono-Poulenc Agro has said it had signed a research agreement with the Singapore-based Institute of Molecular Agro-biology(IMA) on genetic engineering of disease resistance in
The outbreak of the killer African horse sickness in Stellenbosch may have been started by horses brought in from the Free State to start tours of the winelands in horse-drawn vehicles. The man who
Scientists in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region have successfully bred 13 blue sheep through artificial insemination after 16 years of research on improving strains of wild animals
With public granaries already full, the prospects of a record foodgrain harvest this year-- breaching the 200 million tonne mark-- may pose problems for the country's food managers in the next few
Casting a wary eye over a rack of glistening fowl adorning a Chinatown restaurant window, Brian Hinton scratched his chin and gave voice to the British public's deep suspicion about what ends up