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  

Fair farming

The European Union buckles under the pressure of the developing countries to reduce agricultural subsidies

Public health over profits

Can green mean free?

India Organics Inc

The Indian farmer is 'naturally' organic. But without support and premium for 'green' crops, there is no alternative but to take the chemical route

Not a cakewalk

Bottlenecks and hassles confront the Indian organic producers

Legislation for a few

Benefits of the Act that encourages conservation of plants reach few farmers

The energy divide

Chronic power deprivation in some districts raises serious policy issues

Kagga in peril

This rice can tolerate brackish water but is on the brink of extinction. Can government save it?

Japanese biopiracy of our Ballia barley

Japan’s Sapporo brewery patents Indian barley gene without giving benefit to farmers

It's the market, stupid

Monsanto went mainstream. No, said the market