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

A record 96,000 sets of drainage facilities have been in full operation in China's flood-hit areas to mitigate further losses caused by flooding. Floods in South China and areas along the Yangtze

Mumbai will host Globoil India'98 on September 20 and 21 this year. Globoil India'98, the country's premier international conference and exhibition on vegetale oil, feed and feed ingredients,

The Jain Committee on All India Coordinated Research Projects (AICRP) has recommended phasing out 13 Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) projects and replacement of another 10 projects by

Crop scientists have used a chemical substance (pheromone) found in beetles for the first time to fight beetle menace which affects groundnut produce every year. They have extracted a unique

From one end of Europe to the other, consumers are in open revolt over the prospect of a future in which nature has somehow been altered by people holding test tubes. Throughout the world last year

As many as 82 farmers from Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra had committed suicide during the year after being over-burdened by debts, the Revenue Minister, Mr. Narayan Rane, told the

Two research groups in Japan have seprately developed potatoes that can decompose weedkillers and other agrochemicals sprayed on them. Both teams hope to commercialize the products-said to be the