The Centre plans to set up a national-level commission for the welfare of

The Cabinet sub-committee relating to implementation of the Agriculture Policy, which met on Monday, decided to popularise the "greenhouse" concept to increase production and productivity of certain

Large tracts of the tea plantations in the hilly Nilgiris district in southern India are reeling under severe frost attack that may hit output, planters said on recently. "Frost attack in the

A two-day biennial Joint Area Scientific seminar, organised at Tocklai Experimental Station, Jorhat which concluded on Saturday, was the apt forum for close ineraction between tea planters and

In years when cold-weather damage hits the rice fields, the harvest can be severely affected. So it is good news for farmers that a gene that bestows resistance to rice blight has been isolated by a

The "clandestine" field-trials of Bt cotton carried out in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh by Monsanto, have polluted fields in a radius of 2.5 km, according to Prof. Nanjundaswamy, farm activist and

The use of "Terminator technology" in agriculture has been banned by 16 research institutes, including one in India working under the Consultative Committee on International Agriculture Research

Masur dal plants on 1050 hectares of land in Sadar, Charbhadarson and Sadarpur thanas of the district of Bangladesh have been damaged by pests. According to unofficial sources, masur dal plants were

For a first world country, the concentration of land ownership in Scotland is shocking. About 600 individuals - usually aristocrats or reclusive foreigners, or rich people from the city - own 50 per

The United Nations Organisation (UNO) has earmarked an amount of Rs 200 crore which has been released under its International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) scheme for the benefit of the

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