): An important factor of the economic crisis is the underlying stagnation in yields per acre of major crops, a study of Planning Commission (PC) reported. Agriculture experts revealed that if the yield potential of the medium and small size farm sector is achieved, food shortages can be converted into food surpluses.
Ignoring bio-safety norms and business ethics, the cotton growers have sowed about 70 percent BT Cotton seed in different parts of Punjab and Sindh province, sources told Daily Times Tuesday.
This latest ISAAA publication provides comprehensive and up-to-date status of field trials and commercialization of biotech crops in India in 2008. It summarizes the national and farm-level impact during last seven years of commercialization of Bt cotton in India.
New Delhi: Signaling the direction in which the UPA Government will move with regard to industrialisation in its second innings, new Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said environmental issues would not be allowed to become
It is presumed that remarkable increases in cotton productivity in India have come about through bacillus thuringiensis cotton and that this approach therefore must be replicated in other crops.
Brazil is set to begin commercial planting of a soybean variety with a gene that makes it resistant to the devastating Asian rust fungus, which is beginning to develop tolerance to conventional fungicides.
Local growers could markedly reduce production costs if the new variety, which was developed by the Fundacao MT in Brazil's No. 1 soybean state of Mato Grosso, proves effective.
The majority of the Rs 2,200 crore of government subsidies on sale of cotton by state-owned trading firms like Cotton Corporation of India have gone to traders.
The scorching sun and the soaring mercury is not only making life difficult for human beings, even plants are finding the heatwave too much for their survival.
Sprouts of cotton of many farmers in this district have withered away due to the heatwave prevailing in the area during the past one week.
Many others have decided to delay sowing as they see no let-up in the weather conditions.
