Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

Western Ghats: lessons in protection

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

Brief

France extends GM corn ban

Supreme Court criticized for giving clearance to Bt Brinjal

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India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

Bauxite mines in Andhra Pradesh draw tribals' ire

Test tube brinjal

Indian regulators are keen to clear Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation. This would be India’s first genetically modified food crop. If …

Maize Mania

Maize has become the queen of cereals, courted by state governments, seed companies, farmers and the feedstock and starch industries as the crop …

Just like a forest

Analog forestry mimics a forest to create an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape

GM purple tomatoes to fight cardiovascular diseases

UK-based Cathie Martin to start clinical trials soon; green activists protest and call trials ‘violation of European Union norms’

ICAR to launch tuber crops scheme in Attappady

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

Does Cry1Ac gene harm plants?

A new Indian study says yes, but scientists differ  

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

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Vidarbha farmers unhappy with minimum support price for cash crops

Agriculture ministry overlooked increased input and labour costs, ignored state government recommendations

Parliamentary committee slams regulatory system on GM crops

Says the crops have an impact on health and the environment and that these aspects were overlooked while approving Bt Brinjal trials in India

Endosulfan manufacturers seek time on how to dispose of unused stocks of the pesticide

Supreme Court to meet on November 11

Doomsday vault in Arctic to save crop diversity

Brazil gives go-ahead to GM corns

No labelling for GM food

New food safety regulation ignores it despite a four-year-old law

Rules and renegades

Pesticide regulations in India are lax. The industry has exploited the loopholes to corrupt the system. And the government has turned a blind eye …

Food vs fuel