An action plan for doubling horticultural production in the State within the period of 1998-2008 has been formulated by the Department of Agriculture/Horticulture, Government of Meghalaya. According

The first International Agronomy Congress scheduled to be held from November 23 will focus on the second generation problems of green revoltion of sustaining food security in context of

Two years after the World Food Summit, a paper by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) finds that progress to date has been insufficient to meet the Summit's main target of halving the

Monsanto: Monsanto, the US seed and agro-chemical giant, emphatically stated on Friday that 'a non-existent so-called terminator gene' was not involved in the field trials being carried out by it in

Fake harvest reports in pursuit of an 8% growth pledge recall the days of the Great Leap Forward in China : a

Prof M D Nanjundaswamy of the State Farmers Association has threatened to take "direct action" against Monsanto, a multinational corporation, if the company failed to provide information immediately

Health risks from genetically modified food is not the concern of affluent countries alone - people in the Philippines too are worrying about new genetically modified food imports from the US. But

After unseasonal rains put humble onions out of reach of the poor,a new insect immune to available pesticides - Gilhard - is threatening mustard, gram and wheat crop in large parts of Rajasthan. Just

Opposition to genetically modified food is growing in the UK and Germany, according to a surveys carried out for Monsanto, the US life sciences group that has been at the forefront of introducing GM

Punjab, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, which make up the rabi belt, are facing shortfall of diammonium phosphate(DAP) because of the government's failure to announce