Regulatory battle

Industry and activists have expressed conflicting opinions on GM crops. GEAC has a difficult decision to make

Transgenic tomato ready for field trial

GM nut loses ground

Genetic approval committee rejects transgenic groundnut

Conventional solutions to check air pollution in Asia-Pacific insufficient: UN

Instead critical measures should include –agricultural residue management, ban on open burning of household waste, improve efficiency in …

‘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 …

Desi cotton to the rescue

CICR banks on traditional solutions to Vidarbha’s cotton crisis

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

Not so hard to crack

A rare fungus threatens Indian walnuts

Maybe it’s ALIVE

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

Sharad Pawar introduces Agricultural Biosecurity Bill

Proposed legislation seeks to bring plant, animal and marine protection under one authority

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.

Agriculture is egocentric

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

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 …

WTO talks end with no consensus on agriculture support

Negotiations on fisheries “came close” to a deal but one or two or two matters could not be reached

Remodel food systems

The climate change crisis is human-made; it is we humans who must rework our lives; we cannot go ahead with the current model of agriculture …

Simply Put: Land animal without land

Final shift

Besting pests

Cultured to propagate

Tissue culture helps scientists protect endangered flora

Designer fruit

Meatier mushroom

Grape gains

Stripping device

Quite a saving