Arnold Schwarzenegger, the terminator? No, this terminator is a technology used to protect plants and crops from pests and improve its quality. And "terminator technology" recently brought to India

Agricultural research institutions in India, especially those involved in dryland farming, have a major role to play in developing strategies for sustainable agricultural practices in the arid

Italy plans to use its memebership of an alliance that is pushing from reform of the European Union milk sector as a platform to campaign for further changes to the Common Agricultural Policy. Paolo

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said that the number of chronically hungry people in the world was rising and that the Asian financial crisis could spell even more pain for the poor.

The Andhra Pradesh state assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Centre to take measures to prevent Monsanto India from using the controversial 'terminator gene' technology.

Six cotton growers of Madhya Pradesh, five of them from the Vidarbha region, allegedly committed suicide last week following widespread damage to the cotton crop due to unseasonal rain and their

The Andhra Pradesh Assembly unanimously passed a resolution requesting the Centre to block the entry of the 'terminator' gene for cotton into the country following fears among farmers about its

Agriculture scientists attending the first international Agronomy Congress here today warned that rapid soil erosion and declining crop yields could lead to foodgrain shortages in the region.They

The Janata Dal Government set up expert panel to monitor genetic farming, which is being opposed by one of the Karnataka's militant farmers association.The state Governemnt also said that it would

Even as Karnataka Agriculture Minister C. Byre Gowda declared yesterday that trials of the terminator gene technology would not be allowed in the state, Monsanto, the MNC accused of conducting these