Rice has different gastronomical connotations to different people. It could mean the aromatic biryani or Sambhar-rice or simply dal-chawal. Rice is also top priority of GM pushers and farmers and activists are doing whatever it takes to keep them at bay. After rounds of protests, petitions and public awareness it is the turn of festivals. More than 150 traditional varieties of rice,

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

WHILE a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield, all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot. They are selling their produce at the rate of Rs 2,500 per quintal; a few varieties are fetching Rs 3,000 per quintal

BHUBANESWAR: Two new rice varieties - Swarna Sub-1 and IR.64 Sub-1 - developed by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, combining high-yield potential with high degree of tolerance to submergence, have proved as a boon for flood-prone area farmers of South Asia, including Orissa.

A US bill undermines small farms, even gardening the Green Party of the US has urged the government to amend the food safety bill to protect small-scale farms and organic farming. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 was introduced in the US House of Agriculture in February. It is pending with the House Committee on Agriculture. Following a recent wave of contaminated food

Organic India on Sunday launched surgarcane juice in the form of syurp. The syrup has been fortified with a number of herbs that guard against harmful chemicals found in conventional sugar while maintaining its nutritional qualities.

Briefing newsmen, Corporate Communications manager Vandita Joan Samuel said the syrup contained whole herbs instead of their extracts.

Farmers will have three weeks to apply for $50 million in land stewardship funding to help pay the cost of converting to organic production, said the U.S. Agriculture Department on Tuesday.

Ganni Khan, an organic crop cultivator from Karnataka, arranging mangoes at the Organic Mango Festival that began at Lumiere Organic Restaurant, Panam