Countryside organisations across Europe are to press the European Commission for a huge increase in funding for environmentally friendly farming. The UK's Countryside Commission will present Franz

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) plans to expand institute-village linkage programme (IVLP) to 70 centres in the next five years.

Agricultural extension services in the country will be stepped up with commencement of the $239 million World Bank funded national agricultural technology project (NATP) from April

It had to happen, India has reacted strongly to the US Patent Office granting Ricetec, an American company, a patent for Basmati rice and has decided to examine various possible remedial options. The

Abdul Hamid Khan, a zamindar of Raiban Khera village, would have little realised that the dussehri mango sapling that he had grafted at Kakori in the latter half of the 19th century , with the

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries plans to introduce a new rice policy that will abolish the current price-support framework and allow market forces to prevent excessive production.

Greenpeace today provided new evidence to the European Commission of illegal imports of genetically manipulated maize into Europe through the

As more and more farmers grew coca instead of food, prices for coca leaf dropped and the cost of the food they had to buy soared. Washington's strategy in Colombia where about 80 percent of the

In a major grant-in-aid project assigned by the Directorate of Industries, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, the Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat, undertook a study on the utilisation of wild

Young farmers are to benefit from the first increase in European Union milk quotas in nearly 15 years, as part of attempts to rejuvenate an aged and declining farm population. Proposals for a