Firm alleges officials colluded with rival company Hospet, Boundaries marked by the revenue department were found missing when officials of the Survey of India came here for a survey of the iron ore mines as per the High Court order, S C Partha of the Survey of India has said.

PANJIM, Although the area under floriculture in Goa is meagre, Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) has designed a roadmap to enhance the floriculture industry.
ICAR Director N Singh said that there is a huge demand for flowers in Goa due to a booming tourism industry.

KOCHI: The student community voiced their protest against the use of Endosulfan pesticide here on Monday.

Several youngsters participated in a dharna held in front of the Gandhi Bhavan near Kacheripady here in the morning. They raised slogans against those advocating the use of the harmful pesticide.

Incessant rains have turned Indiana farmer Larry Winger's grain fields into ponds, making it impossible for him to seed his corn crop.

"Historically, we would like the work to be done by the first of May, and research shows the optimal planting time is the last week of April," said Winger, who plants half of his 2,500 acres with corn, and the other half with soybeans.

"Prospects are OK until

Rattled by soaring food prices and falling farm productivity, the FM has announced a slew of measures to boost the farm sector and vowed to deepen the process of attracting more private investment in agriculture and agro-processing.

He announced an increase in bank lending for farm sector as well as interest subsidy to farmers who pay short-term crop loans on time.

The budget comes in the backdrop of an emerging global food crisis, caused partly by extreme weather events in some major food producing countries including China, and partly by escalating petroleum price arising from the battle for democracy in the Middle East. It also comes in the wake of continuing food inflation.