In a significant judgement the Gujarat High Court has held that the total ban imposed by the State Government on slaughter of cattle by passing Act of 1994 (which amended Bombay Animal Preservation

Emergency import of quality seeds has been suggested to stem the cotton crop failure that has led to a spate of suicides among farmers in at least three Indian states. The federation has been

The BJP-led government is likely to introduce a bill in Parliament for protecting farmers rights on patents, minister of state for agriculture Som Pal said. Pal was also of the opinion that the World

Commuters driving through this hamlet, on the outskirts of Lucknow, may be denied the pleasure of witnessing the sight of mouth-watering Dussehris hanging from the branches of thousands of mango

Farmers in Patiala, Ropar, Fatehgarh Sahib and Ludhiana districts have suffered a decline in wheat productivity from 10 to 20 per cent as compared to last year. Stating this after touring the mandis

The first patent in the biofertiliser field in India has been granted to Dr Ravi Kanitkar and Ms Sandeepa Inamdar of the pune based Kumar Krishimitra Bio-products (I) Pvt Ltd. The patent was granted

The three day annual rice workshop which concluded at Ludhiana, failed to recommend any new varieties for cultivation on the fertile north-western plains of the country. However, the workshop did

Poverty is proving a curse to farmers and landless labourers in even a prosperous state like Punjab, where during the past few years, suicides because of indebtedness have become a common feature in

A microbiologist of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in Delhi has discovered a new group of soil bacteria that enables farmers to reap bumper harvests of wheat, cotton and sunflower

The country's first early maturing maize hybrid that can be bred quickly has been developed by crop scientists who say the breakthrough will improve India's maize production considerbaly. Compared to

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