A new crop insurance scheme has been introduced in two districts of Andhra Pradesh on a pilot basis from the present rabi season. About 2.2 lakh small and marginal farmers in Prakasam district and
Food crisis in parts of the globe worsened in 1997 with more countries affected by food emergencies as compared with the previous year. Bad weather, poor crops and civil strife were the causes for
The Union Commerce Ministry, through its Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), is organising a workshop in Bangalore on January 17 to find solutions to the bottlenecks that have prevented
Study : The domestic demand-supply gap of cocoa production is expected to widen in the coming years, according to a study conducted by Cadbury India Ltd. In 1996-97 , the domestic demand was about
A statutory body, on the lines of the Tobacco Board, is being mooted by the Andhra Pradesh government to regulate regions under cotton cultivation. The proposed body will confine cotton crop to
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed a self-propelled paddy transplanter to reduce the back-breaking manual drudgery of women involved in rice plantation in muddy waters.
Starch is the largest single energy source in the human diet. So a discovery at Oxford University of a way to increase the starch content of crops such as potato, maize and rice could have
India has banned the import of poultry and its products as well as other birds from all the countries where avian influenza disease is prevalent. The agriculture ministry has communicated this
The Union Cabinet has approved the agriculture ministry's proposal for treating large scale crop damage due to pest infestation as a natural clalamity for the purpose of providing relief and