Recently, Bangladesh signed four agreements with Vietnam. The accords were on the formation of a joint commission for economic, cultural, scientific and technical cooperation between the two nations.

The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) organised the Third Agricultural Science Congress in collaboration with the Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, Punjab, on March 12. The

A regional pact in Geneva proposes to ban or restrict the use of persistent organic pollutants

to catch a thief. Cultivators now use a fungicide derived from mushrooms to eliminate fungal infection in their crops

China has launched its first ever agricultural survey which involved 230 million rural households in approximately 800,000 villages. The survey, said He Huanyan, an official with the national

three commercial farms, Narsinv Plantations, Reliance Agro Industries and Hoysala Farms, have decided to challenge renewal of mining leases by the powerful mining industry in Goa. The farms are

A gadget which will tell you with a melody and a flashing light that a houseplant needs water has been developed by APC KK, a Japanese firm. Called Do Plant, the gadget uses two 1.5-volt batte

the first crop of wheat plants was

The number of institutions trying to integrate environmental concerns with economics is still small in India, especially given the size of the country and the diversity of its environmental problems and challenges, but a small beginning has already been made. This volume presents the proceedings of the national environment and economics meeting held in January 1994, in New Delhi.

While debating the ways to attain global food security, national governments ignore the most pertinent issue: rapidly disappearing agro biodiversity

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