Health campaigners have attacked the European Commission's proposal to continue subsidising tobacco producers. But Commission officials say they are optimistic that member states will support the

The European Commission backed proposals to keep agricultural support prices largely unchanged and to implement a slight reduction in the Common Agricultural Policy budget for 1998-99 to

Nearly 110 cotton farmers have reportedly committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh so far on account of crop failure leading to indebtedness.Ironically, many of the farmers consumed the same pesticide

The Union agriculture minstry has suffered a major setback in its effort to set up its regional agriculture-cum-animal husbandry research centre of India Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) in the

The Scientists at the Central Institute for Cotton Research, Coimbatore (CICRC) have developed techniques to combat insecticide resistance in cotton in Tamil

Making provision for leasing instead of outright purchase of lands for corporate farming, in selected centres and encouraging research and development in both private and public sectors to develop

Indian Cotton Mills' Federation (ICMF) has proposed a joint committee to examine the high incidence of contamination in cotton. The industry considers Indian cotton to be one of the most

Israel has signed a co-operation agreement with India for conducting general and applied agricultural research at New Delhi's Pusa Agriculture Research

Work on three year collaborative agricultural research project which has been taken up by the Union Government with assistance from Australia for planning sustinable soil management on semi arid

Madhya Pradesh has finally been saved from an imminent financial crunch following the renewal of refinance support to the state by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).