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Fast food

pushpesh pant rediscovers Amaranth -- once the poor man's grain, today an expensive health food

Lost in plantation

Millions of growers and workers are in distress in Kerala, the plantation capital of India, as domestic and international prices of cash crops …

Asia grapples with GM crops

Victory for anti-GM crusaders in Pakistan is short-lived as government gets high court ban on genetically modified crops suspended

Scientists discover ‘safe’ GMOs

The synthetic organisms need amino acids to survive

‘BRAI will benefit both private and public sectors’

Introduction of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill has brought cheers to the agri-biotechnology industry that was facing …

Rajasthan ignores seed advice

It distributed Monsanto’s hybrid maize seeds that were not recommended for the state

Hudhud causes heavy rains across Chhattisgarh

Extensive agricultural damage expected

Brinjal blues

Amid countrywide protests against Bt brinjal, Bangladesh government announces plan to expand cultivation of the genetically modified crop

EU nations can ban GM crops, says EU environment panel

Will this move set the precedent for GM-free food production in the world?

Punjab fails to monitor GM trial

Departments express ignorance about field trials for potato

Wild relatives of crops at risk in conflict-ridden West Asia

Violence and strife have affected their conservation, threatening global food security.

India’s rainfall patterns changing drastically, say Stanford scientists

Longer dry spells and wetter wet spells could spell doom for the Indian agriculture, they warn

Linkage between science and public policy has weakened

M S Swaminathan, popularly known as the father of India’s Green Revolution, has been associated with national agricultural research system (…

Pesticides lobby’s coup

Krishi Bhavan supports endosulfan companies; Kerala protests

'Climate change to impact suitability of tropical agricultural lands by 2100'

Suitability will shift to higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere

State of endosulfan

Ban on the pesticide in Kerala ineffective; more children fall victim, shows survey