The ministry of food processing industry will offer a package of assistance schemes to facilitate entreprenaurs and farmers set up projects using irradiation. This will help prevent waste and also

A large part of food aid granted worldwide this year will go to Asia, which will need up to five million tones largely due to problems in Indonesia and North Korea, the UN Food and Agriculture

A legal challenge to a fundamental premise of the bio-technology industry - the patentability of modified plants - is setting off a wave of fear inside big agriculture companies. An lowa seed

Wheat output in Asia is likely to fall about 1 million tonnes, short of the targeted 19 million tonnes, mostly due to drought in China. Paddy production is estimated to fall by about 4 million tonnes

Following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March to protest against unjust British laws on salt, activists will launch a beej yatra(seed march) on Friday to draw attention to World Trade

The Lucknow Nagar Nigam (LNN) has decided to enhance the penalty on the animals impounded during the "cattle catching drive". The new rates will apply from April 1. Also, owner will have to pay Rs

Pakistan has suffered a staggering loss of Rs 40.84 billion worth of cotton, sugarcane and wheat crop during 1998-99 due to a long spell of dry weather. The government's much trumpeted target of 11

The terminator gene continues to send shivers through the government. Fearing backdoor entry of foreign seed firms through the automatic approval route, the government is considering a reversal of

The Himachal Pradesh Government has chalked out an ambitious programme to make this well-known "apple state " a fruit bowl of the country through diversifying into horticulture in a big way. The aim

Although the fertiliser consumption has been showing an increasing trend since 1995, yet it is far below than the national average which is 76 kilogram per hectare. According to official statistics,

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