Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (HAU) at Hisar has conferred Lifetime Achievement award on one of its former scientists, Mr Dhani Ram Vasudeva. The award, carrying a prize of

what's killing the buffaloes ? : The disease stalking the during-heaped lanes of the Nangli Dairy, area continues to take a toll of buffaloes. More than half-a-dozen buffaloes are dying each day.

India is still trying to build its case against the US patent to the Texan company Rice Tec Inc for basmati rice, commerce ministry sources said recently. An expert group formed by the government who

With the government likely to approve the commercial usage of transgenic varieties of crops by the year 2000, a host of ethical issues have cropped up. Matters concerning the traditional right of

A new central sector scheme is proposed to be launched soon to raise the income of people living in tribal and backward areas by promoting hi-tech horticulture. It will help increase output of fruits

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), a Phillipine based organisation expressed its full committment for the development of rice quality and production in Kathmandu amid a workshop. The

Uncertain future once again looms large over the potato farmers of West Bengal as the owners of cold storages in the state have decided to suspend bookings of the new crop unless the state government

Tiny algae, which form a green scum layer on ponds, are the source of unique gene that can be transferred to crops to boost yields by 30 pr cent and reduce nitrogen fertiliser consumption by

Zhou Tianxi's fields are dry and cracked, and if he relied on farming to put food on his table, his family would go hungry. Zhou lives in China's poorest county-- Dingxi, in the barren north-west

With the government likely to approve the commerical usage of transgenic varieties of crops by the year 2000, a host of ethical issues have cropped up. Matters concerning the traditional right of