Cultivating Europe

Middle Eastern farmers carried agriculture to the West

Transgenic tomato ready for field trial

GM nut loses ground

Genetic approval committee rejects transgenic groundnut

‘Compost too needs subsidy’

Agriculture scientist Preeti Joshi  has the recipe for the perfect compost and has been promoting it in Wardha district of Maharashtra for …

Rajasthan scraps seed pacts

ICAR tells Rajasthan to wait for guidelines on benefit sharing, biosafety

Act of omission

Public institutions do not seek permission from the biodiversity authority before genetically manipulating crops

G Nammalvar, messiah of organic revolution

G Nammalvar was one of a kind, a messiah of farmers who was revered as a saint-teacher by his followers. He was an agriculture scientist, a …

Agriculture is egocentric

Norman Uphoff, professor emeritus of government and international agriculture at Cornell University, US, likes to say that the system of rice …

Maybe it’s ALIVE

Keeping plucked vegetables and fruits in daylight helps them stay alert, produce nutrients

Not so hard to crack

A rare fungus threatens Indian walnuts

Removing toxins makes kesari dal safe food

A new, non-toxic variety of kesari dal is being field-tested in different parts of the country by IARI scientists.

वैज्ञानिकों ने विकसित की मेन्था की नई प्रजाति, 15 से 20% अधिक होगा उत्पादन

भारतीय वैज्ञानिकों ने मेन्था की एक नई प्रजाति विकसित की है, जिससे एक हेक्टेयर में 190 किलोग्राम तक सुगंधित तेल प्राप्त किया जा सकता ...

कृषि क्षेत्र में नई संभावनाओं का दौर आएगा

देश में कृषि व कृषि शिक्षा की दशा पर पड़ताल करती रिपोर्ट्स की सीरीज में प्रस्तुत है भागलपुर कृषि विश्वविद्यालय के वीसी एके सिंह ...

ऐसे तो न खेती बचेगी और न ही तालीम

डाउन टू अर्थ ने देश में कृषि और कृषि शिक्षा की दशा पर एक देशव्यापी पड़ताल की और इस क्षेत्र केे विशेषज्ञों से बात ...

These three areas in and around Delhi give tell-tale accounts of the state of affairs pan-India

Three areas narrate three different stories. Palanpur village, in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district, has been a subject for researchers …

Scientists identify proteins linked with wheat infection

Karnal Bunt, the infection, reduces yield and quality of grains as they start giving off foul fishy odour and taste

Who is watching GM crops?

As India gets ready to unleash a vast number of genetically modified (GM) food crops, politicians have joined activists in opposing engineered …

Dust off the rust

Adequate research-funding can check stem rust resurgence

Scientists study flavour and aroma of Darjeeling tea

SC notice on GM trials

Protein against peach potato aphid discovered

Putting out new shoots

Whether it's increasing yields, cutting growth time of plants, increasing their resistance to disease or preserving genetic resources, scientists …

Of plants and bees

Depleting honeybees threaten biodiversity

Pesticide industry thriving on legal loopholes

The CSE's recent expos has blown the lid off the bottled water industry's tall claims on the purity of its products. Simultaneously, it has …

How useful is genome decoding?

Scientists decode pigeon pea at the cost of Rs 11 crore