Will agriculture help twice-returned Saurashtra migrants tide over COVID-19 crisis?
Several Saurashtra migrants who had returned to work in Surat in May-end said they have fallen back on land resources for agriculture
Rajasthan Locust Attack: Pests plus lockdown leave farmers in a soup
Destruction of the cotton crop, unsold rabi crops like wheat and barley and lack of help from the government making things worse for farmers
Saying no to Monsanto
The Indian patent office has once again rejected the biotech seed giant’s claim for a method to produce stress-tolerant transgenic plants
Supreme Court go-ahead for interlinking rivers
Court had earlier said it would not favour interlinking of rivers if it puts a huge financial burden on the Centre
WTO says US failed on subsidies
Drained royally by MNCs
Royalty payments to firms like Suzuki and Monsanto are sucking out huge sums from India
The GM question
Are hybrid maize seeds being promoted to pave the way for GM maize?
Himachal Pradesh joins list of states banning cotton candy after samples fail food safety test
Samples test positive for harmful dye Rhodamine-B
Idea of farmer wisdom is relentlessly manipulated
As a visiting American academic, Glenn Davis Stone has put in over 60 weeks of field research on the impact of Bt cotton on farmers in Andhra …
Punjab and Haryana are unable to get out of paddy-wheat cycle; why is that?
Experts say low returns and post harvest losses and management inefficiences among major roadblocks for crop diversification
Maya of Indian Science
Lies, denial and outright fraud have become the hallmark of Indian agricultural research because there is no accountability
GEAC has power only to withdraw permission
Arjula R Reddy, a plant geneticist, was appointed co-chairperson of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) in 2009. At present, he …
ICAR’s shoddy science
Inquiry panel finds Bt cotton project had serious flaws, scientists were unethical
Cleaning the cotton stain
ICAR sets up independent investigation into Bt Bikaneri Narma research scam
Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud
ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam
Half of Yavatmal’s soil not meant for cotton: study
District known for farmers' suicides has shallow soil depth which has very little capacity to retain water; report recommends switch to …
GM and the superhero
Letters
GM food debate hots up again
Gilles-Eric Seralini, one of the first scientists to warn the world about the dangers of genetically modified food, counters pro-GM scientists in …
CAG report a wake-up call for ‘sick’ Assam PSUs
Report shows that of 40 PSUs in the state, 21 incurred heavy losses in 2013-14
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New Independence struggle
Monsanto told to quit India
Farmers from 20 states to present national flag made from non-Bt organic cotton to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for Independence Day
Rajasthan opens farm gates
State ties up with Monsanto, other biotech giants to restructure agriculture
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 …