Agriculture
Australian farm registry reveals
08 Sep 2016
Government finds GM mustard safe, seeks comments
06 Sep 2016
Modi inaugurates Phase-1 of Rs12,000-cr Saurashtra irrigation project
30 Aug 2016
The Sauni project is an engineering marvel that involves lifting huge amounts of water through hundreds of kilometres to fill 115 dams across Saurashtra
Monsanto, allies desert National Seeds Association over pricing, royalty issues
27 Aug 2016
Things came to head after the National Seeds Association backed the May 2016 Gazette notification that reasserted the government’s right to fix seed prices
Scientists battling to save bananas from extinction in just 5-10 years
18 Aug 2016
The ubiquitous banana – one of the world’s top five staple foods – could become extinctinct in just five to 10 years due to fast-advancing fungal diseases, scientists have warned
Farm incomes too low, leading to inequality: Jaitley
25 Jul 2016
He said the country cannot afford to have 55 per cent of its people in agriculture whose contribution to the national GDP is only 16 per cent
US senate passes mandatory GMO labeling bill
11 Jul 2016
100 Nobel winners call on Greenpeace to halt anti-Golden Rice campaign
30 Jun 2016
Golden Rice was designed as a solution to vitamin A deficiency, suffered by around 250 million people globally, including 40 per cent of the children under 5 in the developing world