Korea's pork exports to Japan have been deadlocked. In a telegram sent to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry through its embassy in Seoul, the Japanese government said that it will suspend pork

US soyabean companies, trying to promote the "goodness of soya", are targeting Indian, a country where the 'sky is the limit' in terms of market potential, according to an official. At first sight,

With close to 10 per cent of Gujarat's total land area of 188 lakh hectares being cultivable wasteland, the prospect of growing crops on such land has often been experimented with. One such

The Jammu and Kashmir Government is planning to open retail outlets of pesticides through the State Agro-Industries Development Corporation (SAIDC) and J & K Horticulture Produce and Marketing

India is set to become the first ever country to develop a hybrid strain of basmati rice known as Pusa Hybrid Rice-10 (PHR-10). This variety developed by the Indian Agricultural Research

The Government of Andhra Pradesh has constituted a high-power committee to formulate an action plan for

A community-based nursery and oak mushroom project in Trashiyangtse, Bhutan will receive US $7,719 support from Global Environment Facility Small Grants

While the Centre's decision to relax rice specifications for Punjab's 1998 paddy crop has been rejected by the state's rice millers, Haryana has taken up with the Union government the issue of

Zeneca, the pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals business has struck an agreement with Monsanto, the St Louis based life science company, which will give it access to the rapidly growing US market for

The land under irrigation in Maharashtra has increased by six per cent, from 14 to 20 per cent of the total land, during the last four years, according to the Maharashtra irrigation minister, Mr