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

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