Twenty-three farmers and farm labourers, between the ages of 21 and 55 years, committed suicide in a Punjab village, Chotian, with a population of 3,000, over a four-year-period from 1994 to 1997.

The Andhra Pradesh cabinet is understood to have discussed yesterday the pros and cons of revoking the Indebtedness Relief Act to check the spate of suicides by cotton farmers in the

India's row with the US over a Texan company being given patent for basmati rice is being watched eagerly by the European Commission(EC) since it could have wider ramifications, a top EC official has

Haryana and Punjab , the two major basmati growing and exporting states, have woken up, though belatedly, to the challenge thrown up by the patent granted by the United States to Rice Tec for

Pakistan government has initiated action against a US-based company, M/S RICETEC, which has been granted patent by the United States authorities to market basmati rice

Bans on the import and cultivation of genetically modified maize in Austria and Luxembourg look set to remain in place until at the least the summer. A committee of EU experts should vote within the

There are a far greater number of honeycombs in the wilds of Assam than in the Sunderbans, a joint research conducted by a team of experts from Austrian and the Gauhati University has found. The

With the completion of reconstruction work, repairs and expansion of 34 irrigation projects by the District Irrigation Office of fiscal year 2053/54, some 1,500 hectares of land has been brought

MPs criticised as "totally unacceptable" European Commission plans for an increase in farm spending as part of its proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. The Commission has estimated the

China continues to be a predominantly rural country, despite rapid growth and structural transformation of its economy in the recent past, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said during a