The Karnataka Legislative Assembly today witnessed noisy scenes when Opposition members demanded that the Joint House Committee (JHC), set up to look into the issue of the suicide by farmers in

The Legislative Assembly today extended the tenure of the joint house committee set up to inquire into the suicide of farmers in the state following crop failure to May 11 amidst walkout by Kannada

Australian Centre for International AgriculturalResearch (ACIAR) will provide 728,000 Australian dollars to develop highly profitable and sustainable legume-cereal rotations for rain-fed systems in

Apple nurseries in Himachal Pradesh are witnessing a spurt in diseases due to unrestricted supply of plants acros the State, warn crop

Mr.G.B. Shivkumar, Chairman of the Legislature Committee constitued to study the crop loss in different parts of the State and suicide by the farmers, said in the Assembly on Thursday that the

The pesticides industry has said that poor quality chemicals are not responsible for the cottoncrop failure in Andhra Pradesh that had led to a spate of suicides among horrowed farmers there last

The Mahajan committee, in the voluminous 2-part report submitted on Wednesday, has proposed a pricing board comprising representatives of sugar mills and cane growers against the existing system

Finally, there's some help on the way for farmers in Maharashtra hit hard this time by the unseasonal rains and hailstorms. A local charitable trust has decided to "adopt" a farmer in distress, and

Indian scientists are working on super wheat varieties that can yield 15 to 25 per cent more than the current best varieties. Head of Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR) at Karnal in Haryana, S

The European Commission failed to outlaw the import ban on genetically engineered maize declared by Austria and Luxembourg over a year ago. In a vote finalised the Commission failed to get the

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