Forty-five people were due in a British court on Monday after the latest incident of crop damage sparked by opposition to genetically modified products. The 19 women and 26 men were to appear at a

Dr. R.S. Paroda, Director-General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education has said that over 1.5 billion people in the world do not

Punjab's dream of ushering in a white revolution or what is known as the cotton revolution has turned into a nightmare. And the farmers are blaming the untimely rains and spurious pesticides for

The Karnataka High Court has directed the state police to provide adequate security to the offices of multinational seed company Monsanto Enterprises Limited and also to Indian Institution of Science

Taking cure from their Karnataka counterparts, farmers in Andhra Pradesh's Warangal district have destroyed an experimental field of the controversial 'Bollgard' cotton crop raised by the US

The government on Tuesday told the Rajya Sabha that it had taken immediate and adequate steps to prevent entry of the American terminator gene and declared that the farmer would not be denied the

Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (MAHYCO), which is in the eye of storm on the issue of importing germinator technology into the country, has categorically made it clear that the company is not

Nepalese officials hope the newly signed agreement between India and Nepal will allow Nepalese farmers to export milk into the Indian market and avoid the annual losses during the flush season.

The CCS Haryana Agricultural University scientists have developed two new hybrids of "sunflower" and

"Organic" is the buzzword these days for environmentally conscious coffee drinkers, but they may not know what they're buying. "The first problem arises over the definition of what organic is," said