GM blues

Controversy dogs Bt cotton clearance as debate over transgenics continues

Gotcha!

Coming soon: more entrants into basmati family

Half of Maharashtra’s villages lose 50% crop

Farmers want drought to be declared; government dilly-dallies

BRAZIL

Frightening omission

Pushing out pests

PESTERING ISSUE

Peaches and pests

Peach oil may replace some dangerous human-made compounds used for pest control

Soft target

Pests attack poplar plantations

Food safety

In the wake of genetically-modified food flooding the Indian markets, 25 farmers' groups call for a 10-year moratorium on such food

Sowing confusion

Authorities speak in different voices over the fate of genetically modified crops

Green light given

Golden dream

Rice variety to fight vitamin A deficiency

Chaotic reports

The fly that got away

The American serpentine leaf miner that infiltrated into India about two years ago is destroying agricultural crops

Research is not magic solutions take a long time

S K SINHA, former director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), is currently a National Professor at the Water Technology …

Return of fungal wheat

Miles to go

Furore over seeds

UNITED NATIONS

Signatory to biosafety

Modified and making trouble

Since its inception, the agro-biotech industry has had a unique selling proposition -- transgenic crops need lesser herbicides/pesticides than …

World Bank funds for agricultural research

Legally modified

Government plans for GM food labelling in India