The commercialisation of agriculture and the Punjab Government's encouragement to farmers towards diversification from the usual wheat-rice cycle to sugarcane has resulted in development of unique

The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) has drawn up a project for the Ninth Plan to bridge the critical gaps between technology generations and assessment and enhancement of

PUCL report : The Madhya Pradesh police are blatantly fabricating evidence to settle scores with social activists in the state, according to a report that the People's Union for Civil Liberty (PUCL)

In a bid to improve production, productivity and quality of coffee, the Central Coffee Research Institute (CCRI), Balehonnur, has proposed taking up a mega project on "Biotechnology for productivity

A World Bank panel of experts has recommended greater thrust to farmer-friendly biotechnology research in developing countries to address the global food security problem. Biotechnology research in

Though India continues to have the largest acreage under tea- 4.18 lakh hectares - the planters are dogged with problems such as the rising cost of production and wages for labour. Many of the tea

Minimum space requirements for battery hens would be almost doubled under plans outlined by the European Commission. The Commission said financial aid would be available for European Union farmers to

The government on Tuesday ordered a Corps of Detectives probe into the alleged suicide by farmers of Bidar and Gulbarga districts who have fallen into debt traps following the loss of tur dal. The

An unidentified disease has infected coffee plantations in the Kodagu district in Karnataka, leaving no clue to scientist to diagnose, even as some suggest that Bordeaux mixture could be used to

Oranges will make all the differences in the lives of nearly 500 farmers of Hoshiarpur in Punjab. Strange though it sounds, this is actually true as these farmers have been approached by Seagram, the