India's strategies for rice congress

ARGENTINA

That's rich!

Sugarcane cultivation and manure production can go hand in hand

Stubble trouble

Post-harvest clumps in rice fields burn and increasepollution in Punjab

Threatened industry

India downplays scare over stem rust threat to wheat crops from Uganda

Bt Cotton imbroglio

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

To kill a mocking pest

With pesticides no longer a viable means of controlling pests in most cases, the search for alternatives like bio-pesticides has proved that …

Clipped wings

Modern farmland practices are leading to the extinction of many bird species in the UK

Useful wastes

Agricultural residues could help in the making of energy sufficient talukas

National biodiversity plan admits India has failed to conserve biodiversity

With a taste for metals

Made to order plants that eat pollutants

Waste not, want not

Waste generated in Guwahati will now be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity

Gene remedy

Swiss bans GM for five years

Modified dangers

Bt maize can stunt the growth of caterpillars

In Short

Global seed vault opens

Anti-GM vestiges

Mighty caterpillars

Yielding to pressure

Cooling begins in doomsday vault

Doomsday vault good and ready

Facing- rough weather

Scientists are making gloomy predictions that rising temperatures shall jeopardise not just human health but our crops as well

Fume out