Though the importance of neem is well known it finds place on the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation's priority list efforts to collect neem germplasm are only now beginning to pick up at an international level.

Modern science now confirms what was well known in India since Vedic times neem oil is an effective birth control agent.

SPIC is on the brink of launching two neem-based insecticides. Godrej"s Nimin reportedly improves the nitrogen-use efficiency of urea. ITC, too, has found neem effective in checking the tobacco caterpillar moth and has in view the tremendous market in the

Pesticides 1. Wellgro, produced by India Tobacco Company, reportedly repels tobacco caterpillar, prevents the spread of tobacco mosaic virus and prevents nitrogen leaching. 2. Neemguard,

While growing up in Rajasthan, Deepak Bhatnagar often saw his parents using neem leaves to keep insects out of the wheat they stored in their home. He also saw how well the leaves worked against skin

SMALL farmers who cannot afford expensive rat-poisons now have a cheap, natural alternative: A fastgrowing tropical tree, Ghricidia sepium, whose leaves when fermented act as a potent

Scientists are thrilled by the discovery that fungal enzymes called chitinases are environment friendly fungicides.

AGRIDYNE Technologies, a US biotechnology company, recently announced a major project involving the genetic-engineering of pyrethrins, an insecticidal compound derived from the pyrethrum flower (