The union agriculture ministry has geared up to meet the possible threat to crops due to reported local build-up of locusts in Bikaner and Barmer districts of Rajasthan with the southwest monsoon

The Chairman of Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) ,Justice Guman Mal Lodha has appealed to the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to ban export of meat. Though India would lose foreign exchange

A Parliamentary committee has flayed the Central government for ignoring export potential and foreign exchange earning potential of the horticulture sector and suggested a national policy to promote

India and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement for cooperation in agricultural research. The agreement was signed on Thursday between Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Sri Lanka

The World Bank has submitted to the Bangladesh government a 27-year project (1998-2025) for sustainable rural development strategy to build up a food security system in the country. The WB will

Four PAU scientists have been given the ISPRD award by the Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development (ISPRD) in recognition of their research work on the improvement of pulse

India has formally protested to the French authorities against giving a French company right to use Basmati in its trade marks. This is the first time India has taken preventive action to protect

Various projects of the Gurdaspur Animal Husbandry Department in the district are facing closure one after the

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is getting some soyabean germplasm from Mexico as an alternative to rice crop as the rice-wheat rotation in Punjab has reportedly created many soil health and

India and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement for promotion of agricultural research. The agreement envisages exchange of technical information, exchange of scientists, sharing of information