The increasing awareness for the growth of organic teas in the world market has led many an Indian tea planter to switch to bio-organic ways of farming, but environment specifics seem to restrict the

The newly launched National Centre for Crop Forecasting may not be able to access the required geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS), which are under the defence

An international conference organised by Confederation of Indian Industry during the Agro-Tech' 98 on Agro Packaging can prove to be an eye opener for many if one goes through the FAO survey. The FAO

The "cremation Monsanto campaign", an agitation launched by a group of farmers in Karnataka against the use of terminator seeds, has run into rough weather with reports of defiance increasing every

The Centre is likely to consider withdrawing permission to multinational company Monsanto for carrying out field trials on seeds in collaboration with Mumbai based Mahyco company if the seeds were

The Punjab Agricultural University has released three varieties of chrysanthemum for commercial cultivation in the state after trials for over several years. They are Birbal Sahni, Baggi and Ratlam

Chirac: Fench President Jacques Chirac said that France and the European Union(EU) would oppose the sale of genetically modified foods and hormone treated beef at a global trade summit starting in

While the government of Thailand has rolled out the red carpet to embrace a multi-billion-baht Sino-Thai pulp and paper joint venture project, which entails massive eucalyptus cultivation on 200,000

A leading food scientist will cast doubt on the safety of established methods for testing genetically modified food. In a paper to the Royal Society of Chemistry, Dr Andrew Chesson of Rowett Research

In the Central-Western Canyons of the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, the few remaining peasants have a choice. They can cultivate corn on barren cliffs, or they can receive 300 pesos for each