The global food price spikes of 2008 should not have come as a surprise. There were a number of long-term trends that were working towards the surge in food prices, which was fi nally occasioned by some proximate causes. While global prices have eased since then
A framework for adapting Indian agriculture to global climate change: a paper presented by Dr. P.K Agarwal, IARI, Delhi at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
BHUBANESWAR: Following the moratorium on Bt brinjal, the draconian clauses of the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill have invited sharp criticism from scientific community of Orissa and the surprising hurry with which the Centre is planning to pass it.
CHENNAI: The alternative agriculture budget presented by the PMK has envisaged a second green revolution, according priority to increase production of millets, oilseeds and cereals cultivated mostly in arid regions.
Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine.
LUCKNOW: Here's something for agriculture skeptics to chew on. If government data from Uttar Pradesh's agriculture department is to be believed, the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) in the state is well on its way to becoming a "second green revolution".
