The Barind Multipurpose Development Authorities (BMDA) earned a total of Taka 16 crore as irrigation charge under the Post Flood Irrigation Project during the last Irri-boro paddy cultivation period

"Poland will not enter the European Union on the backs of its farmers. We will not lie down and be trampled," says Andrzej Lepper, a former boxer who heads Poland's most belligerent farmer's union.

European Commission officials warned they were experiencing difficulties in devising changes to the European Union's banana imports regime, which is in breach of world trade rules. As a result the

Even though US merchants are paying premiums for non-genetically modified maize and soya for export, it is hard to get more money out of European buyers, traders said yesterday. There

Strategic Diagnostics Inc. has developed an inexpensive test to allow grain elevators to detect the presence of genetically altered soybeans as more buyers demand to know the genetic

Eminent agricultural scientists MS Swaminathan is not in favour of importing pulses from Australia. Speaking to the directors of ICAR institutes on the "Science and Sustainable Food

An insecticide prepared from roots of a plant traditionally used in making pickles and ayurvedic drugs has been found to be useful in warding-off pests attacking stored foodgrains.A dried powder

In the wake of enthusiastic response generated at the just concluded Kochi Internaitonal Tea convention, the tea industry has brewed a mega plan to hold another global convention at Delhi during

Trial research on bollgard cotton, genetically altered by the multinational seed giant Monsanto, is continuing in 10 locations across the country, Union Department of Biotechnology Secretary Manju

The prespects of kharif crops has not been adversely affected as the distribution of rainfall in the current SW Monsoon has been even so far according to the mid-monsoon review of Indai

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