Thousands of farmers have descended on this holy city to participate in the three-day mahapanchayat of the farmers better known as farmers' kumbh. At the inaugural session which started here

European Union leaders set an ambitious nine-month deadline for reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and regional aid and agreement on a new EU budget, to prepare for eastern enlargement early

The country will block the entry of genetically-engineered seeds containing the newly-patented Terminator gene that switches off the reproductive cycle of a plant after a generation.A provision to

In its first-ever fight to protect agricultural exports, India has flexed muscles to drag the European Union to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for imposing non-tariff barriers on basmati

The Director-General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Dr. R.S. Paroda, released four new crop varieties developed by the Central Tuber Crops Research Institute(CTCRI) at a

In a campaign seeking the dismissal of the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, thousands of AIADMK cadres today took to the streets protesting against the alleged "anti-farmer policies" of the State

A US firm has developed a new type of seed that cannot be planted twice - it self-destructs before you can do so. Nongovernmental organisations and developing countries are outraged and worried that

Thailand's rights to its famed 'jasmati' rice as well as its rice exports, are under heavy threat by a US firm's use of the name 'jasmati' as a brand for a product that it calls a copy of the Thai

most of Iraq's farms are in a bad state, says the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ). The famous fertile fields of Mesopotamia's have been ruined due to

The government has decided to allow export of 500 metric tonnes of Niger seeds through the Karnataka State Agriculture Produce Processing and Export Corporation Ltd.