CMIE : Hopes of bountiful kharif crop in 1999 has diminished due to progressive weakening of monsoon from the last week of July to end August, according to the Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy

Responding to growing post-harvest information needs, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on August 6 announced the formation of PhAction, a global post-harvest forum. Ten institutions

The poor monsoon has threatened the prospects of the kharif crop, mainly that of groundnut, which could adversely affect the prices of groundnut oil-- the main cooking medium in Gujarat. In the last

Environmental activist Vandana Shiva on Monday accused Monanto Corporation of importing sophisticated technology to circumvent the Centre's ban on the import of the controversial terminator seeds.

The adoption of international standards on biotechnology was a key to world food supply, a United Nations food official said. Rome-based David Byron, food standards officer for the

Portugal's Medical Council said yesterday genetic manipulation of plants and animals used in food could alter the environment and trigger health risks. "With the cultivation and rearing of

Food makers, distributors and related industries in Japan are moving to secure foods and food materials that are not genetically modified in preparation for the introduction of a rule to label

The Choudhary Charan Singh(CCS) Haryana Agricultural University has developed nine new crop varieties which possess traits surpassing their existing counterparts.The Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Vinay Kumar,

The Choudhary Charan Singh (CCS) Haryana Agricultural University has developed nine new crop varieties which possess traits surpassing their existing

A new method to extract fibres from wild species of banana plants of Mizoram hills has been identified by the Botanical Survey of India(BSI) in

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