Bhutan is renowned for espousing Gross National Happiness but now the isolated Himalayan nation is also looking to become known as a world leader in organic farming. “We are nearly all Buddhists.

Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides.

The state-run Soil Resources Development Institute has found some 40 per cent of both locally produced and imported fertilisers adulterated.

The department of chemicals and petrochemicals is working on stringent quality norms to check dumping of basic chemicals in India.

The greatest challenge faced by scientists in agriculture and allied branches is to reverse the adverse effect of modern agricultural practices on environment, speakers at a farm training programme

A campaign to encourage farmers to use organic fertilizers and organic pesticides has been started here to discourage the production of vegetables and other agro-products using chemical fertilizers

The government’s decision to double the prices of natural gas will hurt the prospects of the consumer industries like power and fertiliser.

Rating agency ICRA said in a report the CCEA approval of the Rangarajan gas pricing formula is positive for the upstream sector’s earnings and sentiments but negative for all categories of consumers.

Prices could double by 2014 leading to hike in power tariff and fertilizer cost

Despite opposition from within the Cabinet and outside, the Manmohan Singh government on Thursday approved a doubling of natural gas prices from the present $4.2 mbtu to $8.4 mbtu from April 1, 2014.

Centre has agreed to establish a gas-based fertiliser plant, replacing the coal-based FCI unit, at an estimated cost of Rs 5,000 cr

The Union government has agreed in-principle to revive the Fertiliser Corporation of India's (FCI) urea production plant at Ramagundam in Karimnagar district. The plant had become sick and referred to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction in 1992.