Agriculture

India plans 5 million tonne strategic foodgrain reserve

26 Dec 2009

Centre squarely to blame for price rise, say states

22 Dec 2009

Monsanto announces development of six new high-yielding cotton varieties

17 Dec 2009

India's kharif foodgrain production seen at 98.83 million tonnes

17 Dec 2009

Monsanto’s Genuity seed products offer significant yield advantage

12 Dec 2009

US senators want India to open up farm goods market

12 Dec 2009

Bayer CropScience signs exclusive technology license agreement with FuturaGene

04 Dec 2009

Indian scientists develop new flood-tolerant paddy variety

30 Nov 2009

Indian scientists develop new flood-tolerant paddy variety

30 Nov 2009

Mahyco's Bt brinjal has no adverse effects on biodiversity, says minister

25 Nov 2009

UP sugar mills reach agreement with farmers on cane price

25 Nov 2009

Food grain stocks well above buffer norms: Pawar

24 Nov 2009

Government shelves plan to import rice

21 Nov 2009

Indian government to amend rules on sugarcane pricing

20 Nov 2009

The onus of paying the difference between fair and remunerative prices and state advised prices of sugarcane would now be shifted to the sugar mills.

Agriculture credit disbursement meets 42 per cent of target

20 Nov 2009

UN food summit produces nothing nutritious

20 Nov 2009

Farmers' protest forces postponement of parliament session

19 Nov 2009

After 20 years, India mulls importing rice

18 Nov 2009

UN meet on global hunger opens sans G8 leaders

16 Nov 2009

Government mulls cotton export ban as farmers agitate

13 Nov 2009

Pawar asks sugar mills, farmers to resolve price row to start crushing operations

11 Nov 2009

Government eyes higher cotton exports, but farmers say ‘no’

11 Nov 2009

UP farmers threaten stir over cane procurement price hike

06 Nov 2009

Government hikes support prices for rabi crops

05 Nov 2009

India downplays Chinese activity on the Brahmaputra

By Rajiv Singh | 05 Nov 2009

Indian water resources minister, PK Bansal, has sought to downplay the issue of China building a dam on the Upper Brahmaputra river in Tibet with the strange assertion that the dam is 1100 km away and so a matter of not much concern to India.