Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the prescribed stipulations to avoid contamination of soil and traditional crops were adequate and there was no proposal to ban field trial of genetically modified crops.

A SILENT revolution is sprouting out of Andhra soil.
Just like the free distribution of colour television sets by the Tamil Nadu government, the Andhra Pradesh government is distributing portable soil testing kit that helps ascertain the fertility of the soil.

KOCHI: Dry land is commonly seen in hilly areas or where the water table lies so low that even large trees find it difficult to get water. In Kerala, coastal areas do not have much width. In many areas, landscapes stretching 10 to 25 km from the seaside stand elevated. In some places, the elevation is so close to the sea that you can feel the dryness just adjacent to the sea coast.

New Delhi: The new nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) regime cleared by the Union Cabinet on Thursday is likely to slash the government

REVISED estimates of fertiliser subsidy for 2009-10 are likely to be around Rs 70,000 crore, almost same as in 2008-09, excluding special bonds worth Rs 20,000 crore.

The Centre allocated around Rs 49,980 crore this fiscal against a subsidy bill of Rs 1.17 lakh crore in 2008-09. This was also about 34.10% lower than the revised 2008-09 budget estimate of Rs 75,849 crore.

It is now 42 years since the term "Green Revolution" was coined by Dr William Gaud of the USA to describe advances in production arising from productivity improvement. Even in 1968 I had concluded that if farm ecology and economics go wrong, nothing else would go right in agriculture.

BHUBANESWAR: As the entire nation awaits the decision of Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on the issue of Bt brinjal, the United Coalition Against Genetic Engineering (Uncage), Orissa, today urged him to reject the entry of genetically modified organism

Due To Overfarming & Warming, Fertile Layer Is Vanishing Faster Than It Can Be Replenished, Say Experts

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