Follow Up

To ensure food for tomorrow

Rice and wheat yields are falling. To check it a new initiative has been taken

Farm differently

Report>>A report riles industrial farming nations and agribusiness

Marking neem

Neem clones identified by Indian scientists will boost export of neem-based products

ARGENTINA

New biomass model may help monitor crop damage, health

Flyash herbal pesticides introduced

Government's agri-research set-up is undemocratic

Pee for plants

Experiments explore the potential of urine as fertilizer

Bt Cotton imbroglio

A failure of our scientific preparedness. Where are our scientists?

Once lost is lost

Bitter WTO pill

India, Brazil help the North force its way at Hong Kong

Wheat rust fear looms large over south Asia

Union Budget 2020-21: Examining the agri-research agenda

Increased investment in agriculture research an absolute need of the hour

Lignin from agro waste helps make useful nanocomposites

Lignin is a complex organic polymer rich in polyphenols with antimicrobial qualities

Poor soil, global warming

The downside of using combine harvesters

World Bank funds for agricultural research

India set to grow biofortified crop

Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012

Flood resistance rice comes to rescue

Mobile soil nutrient tester

The soil meter will be available in four months; cost: Rs 5,000

Weedy resistance

Science and Technology - Briefs

Desi cotton to the rescue

CICR banks on traditional solutions to Vidarbha’s cotton crisis

IIT-K scientists design mobile pesticide sprayer that runs on solar energy

The device will save labour and time for small and marginal farmers

Rajasthan opens farm gates

State ties up with Monsanto, other biotech giants to restructure agriculture