Study points to quality issues in Bt cotton seeds

The study has found seed companies violating norms on the mixture of refuge seeds and Bt cotton seeds provided to farmers

Saving rice

Rice is at the heart of a fierce strategy debate as the country prepares to launch the second Green Revolution in the eastern states. …

Getting more with less

System of crop intensification, specially in rice, has shown sizeable savings in water and seed usage. Yet its adoption has not spread despite …

Back in f(l)avour

Entry of high yielding hybrid rice has spelt doom for traditional diversity in the Konkan belt. Thanks to a science academy, the ancient legacy …

Knowledge initiative on Agriculture bad for farmers

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पहले वर्ल्ड एग्रीकल्चर प्राइज से सम्मानित एमएस स्वामीनाथन हरित क्रांति के बीजाराेपण की कहानी बता रहे हैं

You will soon be able to buy India’s first high oleic groundnut varieties

The commercialised of these varieties and it is set to benefit all stakeholders, including small famers, food industry as well as the …

Brief

Supreme Court criticized for giving clearance to Bt Brinjal

Science & Technology - Briefs

Hidden hunger?

There is a rush to cash in on micronutrient deficiency in India through fortification of food

Costly largesse

US unveils safety net for its farmers, shackling global free trade and posing a threat to environment

India's strategies for rice congress

Wheat varieties susceptible to new strains of yellow rust fungus: study

This infection is capable of causing up to 70 per cent decline in wheat yields

Veggies delight

The rising demand for vegetables has opened up a money-making opportunity for small farmers. Already reeling from recurring droughts and …

Letters

India downplays scare over stem rust threat to wheat crops from Uganda

News 360° - Briefs

MAHYCO refuses to share safety data on GM crops

Manipulating Research

Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning …

Cotton conundrum

The powers that be are hanging fire on Bt cotton despite long and intensive research. Indira Khurana delves into the baffling issue

Africa's big little anti-GM revolution

Burkina Faso's farmers have thrown out Monsanto's Bt cotton and returned to conventional seeds, with a little help from India.

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

India Organics Inc

The Indian farmer is 'naturally' organic. But without support and premium for 'green' crops, there is no alternative but to take the chemical route

Not a cakewalk

Bottlenecks and hassles confront the Indian organic producers