The colour of fashion

'Eco-friendly' clothes look cool on the ramp model, but how long will they stay in vogue?

Cotton exports deferred

Farmers fear losses in spite of predictions of a bumper harvest

Cotton Curse: No buyers for salvaged produce after pink bollworm wreaks havoc

Labourers refuse to pick leftover crop as yield too low and traders refuse to buy citing poor quality

Forearmed

CLIPPED WINGS

UPDATE

GM fields

Farmers shun cotton

Delayed monsoons, high input cost make farmers shift to guar, groundnut and pulses

Made for India

Addition of newly-found gene could help Indian Bt cotton varieties withstand pest attacks

Organic cotton

Biased bill

Duping pests

Pesticides are not the only way

Bt for Better Times?

Good weather, illegal Bt seeds raise Punjab's sagging cotton yields

India's farmers don't like GM crops

National level meeting of farmer bodies rails about Bt cotton

Maharashtra CM for Art of Living to check Vidarbha suicides

Vidarbha compensation package inadequate

Price support, not loans, can save Vidarbha farmers

Punjab takes precautions for mealy bug attack

Modified to work

Salinity of black cotton soils can now be measured easily

Western Vidarbha reduces use of synthetic fertilisers

No corresponding drop in agricultural production

A dash of mustard

After Bt cotton, it's now GM mustard; where is our scientific community?

Regressive move

Pestilential high tech

More facts, more doubts

Monsanto ups the Bt cotton ante with a feel-good survey

Shady seeds

Illegal Bt cotton traders nabbed

Bt's soil chemistry