Ludhiana: With wheat production in Punjab reaching an all-time high, well-known agricultural scientist and Rajya Sabha MP Dr M S Swaminathan on Wednesday urged the state government to provide farme

Interventions to fight malnutrition must be simultaneous with outcomes being monitored by an overarching body.

NEW DELHI, 22 APRIL: The government has failed to make agriculture a profitable enterprise and to raise the livelihood of the farmers, according to farmer leader and president of Bharatiya Krishak

New Delhi: Eminent scientist M S Swaminathan has conveyed his inability to chair a panel on checking pesticide residues in the capital.

Agricultural scientist-economist Prof. Swaminathan will move a private member’s bill in the Rajya Sabha that seeks access to water, credit and inputs for women farmers.

Calls for engaging local people on a continuous basis

Renowned agricultural scientist M. S. Swaminathan has suggested that consultative committees be formed in and around the Kudankulam area, comprising civil society representatives and nuclear technology experts, so that the local people could be engaged on a continuous basis on the nuclear power project's safety aspects.

Cotton production in the country has more than doubled due to the use of Bt cotton seeds, said Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today, batting in favour of the contentious genetically modified cro

Eminent economist Madhura Swaminathan on Tuesday said the UPA government's flagship Food Security Bill should have a universal appeal as any targeted selection would lead to complications in picking the beneficiaries in a big country like India.

The Indian Statistical Institute Professor, whose research falls in the area of food security, agriculture and rural development, said: “the draft Bill, as envisaged currently, will exclude a huge segment of the population.”

The Stockholm Internati-onal Water Institute (SIWI) has warned against the increasing leasing and buying of millions of hectares of farmlands in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America for food and fuel production.

This land is being leased to private investors and sovereign wealth funds with no explicit legal agreement on how water will be used on these farmlands.
The World Bank has estimated that over 56 million hectares of land in Africa was leased in 2009 alone but other researches indicate that over 200 million hectares of land, which works out to roughly the size of western Europe, has already been leased out.

The South Asian sub-continent faces the worst brunt of climate change in years to come, scientists of the UN’s Inter-governmental panel on climate change have warned.