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

US scientists have used genetic engineering to change the function of a plant enzyme for the first time. The breakthrough paves the way for designer plants that can be used as a source of food, fuel

The State Government will seek special Commonwealth assistance for frost-affected farmers in Australia's Victoria's north after lifting the estimated financial impact of the freeze to between $800

Attorney-General Soli Sorabjee informed the Supreme Court on Monday that the Union Government would soon move the US for cancellation of the patent awarded to an American company on Basmati rice. The

Restoring and maintaining soil fertility will be one of the top priorities of agricultural scientists in their pursuit of ensuring food security. About 400 scientists from across the country and

The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, promised to implement a new crop insurance policy at the district level throughout the country in the coming year.

Nepal's agricultural lands were considered among the most fertile in the South Asian region. Two and a half decades later the same soil has turned into one of the most sterile due mainly to haphazard

Nick Brown, the UK agriculture minister, is expected this week to announce an aid package to farmers $132m-150m to alleviate the worst crisis in UK agriculture since the 1930s. He has persuaded the