Boulder-sized hailstones rain on Rangareddy district, destroy crops

Studies needed to ascertain if freak weather linked to climate change, say Met scientists

New insurance lets farmers down

Unions demand individual coverage

Odisha SPCB indicts Hindalco for fluoride contamination in farms

Farmers around the plant in Hirakud had repeatedly complained of heavy crop loss which now has been linked to plant emissions

Phailin: crop loss assessed at Rs 2,300 crore

Families in severely affected villages to get rations and cash assistance

SC orders immediate release of Cauvery water to save Tamil Nadu’s standing crops

State claims it has lost a third of its standing crops and that remaining crops on 600,000 ha need to be irrigated at once

Tamil Nadu to sue Karnataka for crop loss in Cauvery delta

Move follows the latter's refusal to release adequate water from Cauvery even after talks, says Jayalalithaa

Science & Technology - Briefs

Farmers want support

Say they are more vulnerable due to erratic weather

Supreme Court asks Centre to submit endosulfan disposal plan

Sets deadline of July 23

NDA government ambivalent about calling off GM trials

Scientists ask Narendra Modi to call off trials of genetically modified food crops, caution against biotech companies being allowed to take away …

Maharashtra's insurance scheme for orchard owners draws angry protests

Too high a premium for too little cover

ICAR to launch tuber crops scheme in Attappady

Kerala chief minister claims it will provide food and livelihood security of tribals

Scientists’ panel calls for 10-year moratorium on GM field trials

Supreme Court-mandated expert committee recommends new tests in thorough overhaul of India’s regulatory regime

European food regulatory body rejects French ban on GM maize

Scientific evidence found lacking in indicating risk to health, environment

GM crop field trials: anti-GM activists protest outside Moily's office

Moily’s approval will now allow event selection trials of rice, castor, cotton and a few other genetically modified crops ÒÇÇ

Dealing with crop stresses and scandals

Subbanna Ayyappan has made history in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (IACR) by becoming the first non-crop scientist to head this …

Prince Charles' organic passion!

Organic farming gets royal patronage in England

Of fairytales and GMOs

The pros and cons of genetically modified organisms and their possible impact on India

Even the mice won't eat

Tests on mice prove that GM food might be more suspect than lobbyists would have us believe

Beware the modified wolf

Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of …

Question of safety

The Bangkok conference on the risks of genetically modified corps advocated greater investment of public funds in bio-safety research

Manipulating Research

Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning …

Unexpected relief

Nobody expected farm forestry and exotics to become a major source of firewood

Wanted, tariff revision

Biomass power plant owners say they cannot manage with power rates fixed when they began operations

Why is fodder so expensive?

Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling