Developing a water-efficient agriculture has received increasing attention from dry north and northwest China, with heartening results. The key to having a water-efficient agriculture, agronomists

Melbourne scientists have found a way to make eucalypts, and potentially other trees, grow a little faster. The researchers, who identified the key genes responsible for the development of wood in

Environmentalist Vandana Shiva today demanded that the indian Institute of Science make its agreement with Monsanto public. She alleged that Monsanto was carrying out "R&D activities in Terminator

The fast pace of urbanization, changing lifestyles of the people, rampant encroachment of land, mostly due to the abnormal growth of population, and by the neighbouring States of Nagaland and

The controversy over field trials of the US firm Monsanto's genetically-engineered cotton in India has hotted up, with environmentalists accusing the government of not presenting correct facts.

The National Institute of Animal Industry in Japan said it has developed a way to prevent oxidation and the loss of color of beef by administering vitamin E to cattle before they are slaughtered. The

The Agriculture Ministry has evolved a new strategy to increase production in the country that involves making various agricultural schemes more location and area specific. Union Agriculture

The food ministry has refused to recognise Pusa No 1, which forms one-third of India's six-lakh tonne yearly basmati exports, as a genuine basmati variety and directed all state governments to put

A non-Government organisation has questioned the official justification of trials in transgenic (Bt) cotton at 40 locations in nine States and said that it will not necessary reduce application of

The agriculture ministry proposes to revampo the funding pattern of Centrally-aided development schemes to mitigate the problem of misutilisation and underutilisation of funds. Nearly 40 per cent of