A Rs 1,500 crore integrated textile park, recently cleared by the empowered committee of the state government, is going to be set up in Panjava village under Malaut tehsil.
Bowing to pressure from the opposition, the government has announced a package of Rs2,000 crore to the farmers of cotton, soya, and paddy in the regions of Vidarbha (eastern Maharashtra), Marathwad
Mumbai: The stir launched by over five million cotton growers took a violent turn on Wednesday, however, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has refused to decide on their demand, citing the code of c
A Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) research spanning over 14 years has shown considerable decline in the level of contamination in different food commodities.
A fact-finding team representing a collective of 40 farmers' organisations, Raitu Swarajya Vedika, has found an alarming rise in the number of suicides by farmers — as many as 90 in the last month
Team Anna member, Mr Arvind Kejriwal, has said that corruption is one the major factors behind farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, and the Jan Lokpal Bill will bring relief to the
Bt cotton was officially approved for cultivation in Tamil Nadu in 2002, when the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, the apex regulatory body pertaining to transgenics (renamed as Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee in 2010) allowed three Bt cotton hybrids to be cultivated in the southern zone of cotton cultivation in India.This is a re
Floods in Pakistan have damaged at least 880,000 hectares of standing crops, including rice, maize, cotton, sugar cane, fruit orchards and vegetables, which represent about 3.7 percent of total nat
