While news reports and disaster movies remind us about tipping points for Arctic melt and sea level rise, some things closer to home get less attention. Take food supply: new modelling studies show that there are climate tipping points here too, beyond which crop yields will collapse.
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Pink bollworm (PBW, Pectinophora gossypiella Saund.) is a pest of economic importance in cotton producing countries. Earlier results of host-plant resistance to the PBW indicated races of Gossypium hirsutum L. and some wild species including Gossypium thurberi Tod. which are resistant to PBW. Hence prebreeding
Chinese government has agreed to send its agricultural experts to Pakistan for the control of Cotton leaf curl virus that has extensively hit cotton crop in Punjab and Sindh.
Three experts from China have been invited to visit Pakistan to support the ongoing research against the virus, the chairman Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (Parc) Dr Zafar Altaf said while addressing a meeting of
The debate against genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country has been going on for quite some time and the article by Kavitha Kuruganti (KK henceforth) on
The long dry spell this monsoon has forced farmers to alter their crop pattern and switch over to the kharif cotton crop in several parts of Gujarat, particularly in Saurashtra, which is known as
The impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on the poor in developing countries is still the subject of controversy. While previous studies have examined direct productivity effects of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton and other GM crops, little is known about wider socioeconomic outcomes.
While previous research has analyzed the impacts of Bt cotton in India, most available studies are based on one or two years of data only. This paper analyze the technology
