Untapped Potential

Lack of lagislation and certification undermines the potential of organic farming in India

Crisis brewing

Collapse of the former Soviet market and an indifferent attitude to quality clips Nilgiris tea industry

आईआईटी खड़गपुर ने खेतों की उर्वरक क्षमता में सुधार के लिए बनाई नई तकनीक

यह तकनीक मैनुअल तरीकों से इस्तेमाल किए जाने वाले उर्वरकों में से 30 फीसदी तक कम करने में सफल होगी

On slippery peel: Can India’s banana cultivation face Panama wilt

Panama wilt infection has ruined banana plantations across the world for 50 years now. While scientists are trying to find solutions in natural …

Budget 2020-21: Local level adaptation may be focus vis-à-vis climate change

Funds might be allocated to Panchayati Raj ministry, IMD, other institutions to minimise impact of extreme weather

India needs a national action plan soon to conserve sharks: scientists

The country has been witnessing a steady decline in shark catch since 1998

With a taste for metals

Made to order plants that eat pollutants

Drought-tolerant maize launched in African countries

It’s pouring money and schemes in agriculture

No dearth of funds for agri credit and new institutions

YAWN!

The Indian Science Congress 2001 represented the state of science in India

GEAC approves field studies of GM mustard on honey bee

Similar approvals for Genetically Modified mustard were also given in March this year by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee

'We are unable to produce quality seeds'

India is facing a shortage of pulses. Untimely rains have caused their prices to rise by up to 64 per cent in 2014-15. Experts say we need to …

Indian research can help cut nitrogen fertiliser waste

Indian scientists manage to identify phenotypes, visibly identifiable features that determine the efficiency with which cultivars use nitrogen

किसानों को बाजार के हवाले करने से खेती मजबूत नही होगी: टिकैत

कृषि सुधार विधेयक को लेकर किसान क्यों नाराज है, इस बारे में जानने के लिए डाउन टू अर्थ ने भारतीय किसान यूनियन के प्रवक्ता ...

वैज्ञानिकों ने खोजा केले के कैंसर का इलाज

भारत के वैज्ञानिकों ने पनामा रोग को कंट्रोल करने के लिए एक बायो पेस्टीसाइड बनाया है जिसका नाम है आईसीएआर-फ्यूजीकांट

Public–private partnerships can help achieve sustainable agricultural development goals

Public–private partnerships in agriculture have the potential to modernise the sector and provide numerous benefits to smallholder farmers

Thirty Million, a documentary on Bangladesh and that sinking feeling

This documentary by Daniel Price and Adrien Taylor explores the adverse impact of climate change on Bangladesh' landscape, food security and …

Science and Technology - Briefs

Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops

Calls for a national policy on GM crops in its report to Parliament

दिल्ली के 700-800 हेक्टेयर क्षेत्र में होगा बायो डीकंपोजर घोल का छिड़काव, हिरंकी गांव से हुई शुरुआत

पराली की समस्या से निजात दिलाने के लिए पूसा इंस्टीट्यूट ने विकसित किया है बायो डीकंपोजर

How Bt brinjal hurt the farmers of Bangladesh

New report says three-fourth of farmers who took up cultivation abandoned it in the next rounds

Bt Brinjal crop fails in Bangladesh's Gazipur district

Outcome in Gazipur not going to affect government’s plan to bring 20,000 ha under the GM crop in next five years

In court

डाउन टू अर्थ तफ्तीश: अंधेरे में तीर मारने जैसी है किसानों की आय में वृद्धि की कवायद

गुड़गांव के कृषि विज्ञान केंद्र ने सकतपुर और लोकरा गांव को किसानों की आमदनी को दोगुना करने के लिए गोद लिया है, लेकिन किसी ...

Ban use of TB drug on crops: Central panel

Minutes of the meeting said that streptomycin, tetracycline use be phased out by 2022-end for crops for which no options were available