The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has started the registration of emerging new varieties and cross-breeds of plants as an advance action for the inevitable patent regime as per the

Productivity on Russian farms remains abysmal-by one measure, a quater of that achieved by Chinese peasants working in identical conditions. Marketing and financial management are scarcely attempted:

The Grameen Bank is reported to be linking up with Monsanto, an aggressive US based bio-technology corporation to test "hybrid cotton" and increase its yield in the northern part of Bangladesh.

US biotech firm Mycogen and Rhone-Poulenc Agro (RPA) of France, the crop protection subsidiary of life sciences company Rhone-Poulenc, are pooling their resources to develop and market

Pakistan's success impresses IAEA : The technique successfully used by the Faisalabad-based Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology, a subsidiary of the Pakistan Atomic Energy

Hundreds of Thai farmers rallied to protest a US trademark on a strain of rice developed by a Texas company. The roughly 500 protesters, worried that the trademark of the name "Jasmati" for a rice

Crop scientists have identified a plant that can efficiently remove kane grass, a prolific weed of farms, within two years. Research carried out at the Ramie Research Station in Sorbhog has shown

The Embassy of Japan has decided to extend the financial assistance to the Centre for Sericulture Development and Environment Improvement (CSDEI) of Kathmandu for the implementation of the

Farmers of Punjab have sown uncertified seed of cotton due to acute shortage of the certified seed in an about two lakh hectare area in the cotton belt of the state. Agriculture Department sources

The Andhra pradesh government has hit upon a novel idea of organising 'on-farm extension' in each of the 1,105 blocks in the state to boost agriculture output under its comprehensive agriculture

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