Bowing to demands from Washington, the Colombian government has agreed to test a granular herbicide to kill coca crops, despite public warnings from the chemical's American manufacturer against its

Virtual shutdown of North Korea's food distribution system is forcing many of its people, especially women and children, to survive on bark and wild plants until the summer harvest, aid officials

The Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Bio-technology, a centre for excellence for advanced research and training in bio-technology, intends to breathe fresh air into the long-drawn but controversy-ridden

The three-day International Workshop on Walnut Production organised by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Jammu & Kashmir Government discussed the issues related to

Agriculture scientists attached to the GB Pant University have developed a new variety of paddy seed which they claim can double the production in the rice producing fields of North India. The seed

A fruit-processing technology developed by the National Chemical Laboratory at Pune has immense relevance in view of the Maharashtra government's initiative to boost agro-industries in the state.

A new fungal disease, which is wreacking havoc in many rubber plantations in Kerala and Karnataka, has cast a shadow on the future of over ten lakh growers in the country. The disease, which is

US farmers will lose $200m worth of exports of maize to the EU this year, because of European resistance to genetically modified crops, a leading US official said at a conference in London. Gus

Floods have affected at least 20 tea gardens in the Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district. About 1,000 sq km of tea plantation area has been badly hit, said the Secretary of the Dooars branch of the

The perpetual shrinkage of the cotton producing area covered by the World Bank-aided Intensive Cotton development Programme(ICDP) in the Northern India has become a serious cause of concern for the