Today's meeting of farm ministers in Brussels, which continues tomorrow, will discuss reform of the tobacco regime. The Commission has put forward a proposal intended to persuade growers to shift

With a view to making dryland farming more meaningful and practical and fecilitate transfer of technology onto the field, dryland farmers will be involved in the research activity of agricultural

Honey apart, bees are being used by many countries to enhance crop yield, but India is yet to tap this potential. Had India paid enough attention to utilise the services provided by bees, it would

Major Plantation Companies are planning to fight against the finance ministry's crackdown on such firms. Irked by the intense official scrutiny, plantation firms are banding together to ask for a

The agriculture ministry and the Indian Meteorological Department have given contradictory statements on how crops have failed in the past year

Malaysia, the country that hopes to be the home of latest multimedia technology, is currently advising its people to "return to the soil'. Threatened by a looming economic crisis, Malaysia plans to

Poultry diseases broke out in an epidemic form in the district. At least 20,000 poultry birds have caught diseases in the district during the last two months. The people of the remote villages could

Militant farmers yesterday blocked Greece's main north-south highway with tractors in protest against the Socialist government's refusal to make concessions in a long-running dispute over

India has a strong case against the patent on basmati rice, granted recently to an American company Rice Tec by the US Patant Office, said some top officials and agriculture

The All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA) has decided to approach the Government to lobby with the United States authorities for cancelling the patent on