Coming close on the heels of the much-published turmeric patent dispute with a US-based company, the Supreme Court is hearing a case related to a dispute on a basmati patent. The case has been filed

In a significant achievement, Indian scientists have developed a workable technique to micro-propogate virus-free saplings of the elite nanjangund rasable variety of banana from diseased plants

A unique course in Karnataka seeks to educate farmers about farming technology

Millions of families are facing acute food shortages and malnutrition, says a report of the World Food Programme ( wfp ), and the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ). The

The use of pumpsets in the agriculture sector has touched alarming proportions with 20 per cent of the total power generated - 15,000-16,000 mw-in the country being diverted to this

Some Europeans fear biotech food. That's not slowing farmers and big business in their march toward a new agricultural world : a

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will introduce a system to ensure items labelled as organic farm products meet certain standards, ministry sources said.

The new agriculture policy is likely to be a boon to plantation industry as it proposes to allot 40-million hectare of degraded lands for forestry out of the total of 80 millin hectare of degraded

The Sindh Agriculture Secretary, Dr. Badruddin Soomro has directed the field staff and agriculture experts of Upper Sindh to visit cotton growing areas, monitor the crop and guide farmers to combat

Twelve to 15 times insecticide spray of crops in Punjab is harmful, Mr Hans Ekmsheuser, a plant protection expert of multinational Novartis has said. He was recently on a visis to the subdivision to