France said that it would approve within days the sale of two types of genetically engineered corn in a ruling that averts a trade war with the United States by unblocking the sales of U.S. corn to

Rallis India Ltd, a Tata group company has entered into a joint marketing venture with the world's largest pesticides manufacturer Monsanto Chemicals for marketing herbicides in India. According to

Productivity growth rates of major crops in Punjab and Haryana have shown a steady decline raising fears that the success stories of the Green revolution are fading away, says a study.The

Keeping with its policy of clearing humanitarian projects, the World Bank has cleared the much awaited $129.9 million assistance to the Diversified Agricultural Support Programme for

Grain production in Zimbabwe has increased by 500 per cent, thanks to the use of a "biofertiliser'

Report : The effects of the green revolution appear to be wearing thin in Punjab and Haryana as a committee of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research has observed deline in productivity of

Grameen's high profile managing director in Bangladesh was finally able to resist the temptation to team up with Monsanto, one of the most powerful, but anti-people, bio-tech corporations in today's

The Union agriculture ministry has referred the draft insecticides act amendment bill to the Union law ministry for examination and concurrence for introduction in parliament. The central govenment

Three varieties of sugarcane developed by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU)show tolerance to red rot disease which eludes solution through plant protection measures, Dr. A. Abdul Kareem,