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A fine threat
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
Drought of equity
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Letters - March 31, 2013
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2013
Bigger is better
The GM maize rats
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2012
Three weeks ago, a university institute in Normandy, France, sparked fury, outrage and an astonishingly vicious battle between scientists across the world by publishing results of a two-year animal feeding study. The study involved one of the best known varieties of genetically modified (GM) maize and the most widely used glyphosate-based herbicide. The study was published by a team of scientists led by the highly regarded Gilles-Eric Seralini who heads the Institute of Biology at the University of Caen in France.
Grain of truth
Issue Date: May 15, 2001
That they are called coarse grains summarises their present status in Indian society. Go anywhere in the country, and you will see a marked inferiority accorded to 'coarse' grains including millets, barley and sorghum. Someone who eats these grains, as against the 'fine' cereals rice and wheat, is considered poor. The production figures speak volumes.
Survival instinct
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2010
AGRICULTURE experts from various countries gathered at St Petersburg in Russia on May 30-31 to strategize how to combat wheat rust diseases threatening the world’s food supply. Syria said 80 per cent of its wheat fields are infected by stripe rust.
A high support price for pulses
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2010
THE government has raised the minimum support prices for pulses by up to Rs 700. It is a 15-30 per cent increase over the previous year.
Women grow food basket
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
Whenever I went missing as a child, my mother would come looking for me in the pata, Lalitabai Meshram said, laughing out loud. My friends and I would play in the tangled vines for hours, making dolls of corn husk and hair, eating groundnuts, beans and waluk melon. Sometimes I would fall asleep there, recalled Meshram, now 50-plus.
Pigeonpea now smiles
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2004
A researcher from Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics has identified the virus that causes the sterility mosaic disease in pigeonpea (commonly known as tur dal). The finding is significant, as the disease leads to an annual loss of US $300 million in India and Nepal, which account for 90 per cent of the crop's global production.
Now compatible with innovation
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2004
why is the Earth abundant in diversity? The secret lies in the functioning of organisms' genetic makeup. Unfortunately, scholars understand little of it, and this slows down the process of conserving ever-dwindling biodiversity.
