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

With the world's largest bovine population, India is set to become the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the US by the turn of the century. The country is also likely to be a major player in

Chinese scientists have been successful in growing 13,333 hectares of winter wheat in frigid northeastern parts of China. The winter wheat can resist cold to as low as minus 28 degrees

Novartis AG, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, will spend $600 million over the next 10 years on a San Diego, California, complex that the company says will be the biggest crop-gene mapping project in

NOVARTIS AG, the world's largest drug and crop chemicals company, has said it will spend $600 millions over the next decade on a California research centre to help it compete in the emerging market

The Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) has developed 12 new varieties of high yielding rice for commercial cultivation in the

Britain formally handed over the agricultural centres at Pakhribas and Lumle to the Nepal government. The two centres were established over 25 years ago and have been funded ever since by the British