PLANTATION BLUES

BRAZIL

UGANDA

Super sensors

Trade mark for tea

Another step forward for the Darjeeling tea logo scheme

MORE CASH CROPS

ECUADOR

Poignant Images

Farmers see red, again

64% of world’s arable land at risk of pesticide pollution: Study

Asia home to largest land areas at high risk of pesticide pollution

Optimistic target

Power plant resurrected

Beating the heat

Import Ban

Peru's war on 'biopiracy'

Farmers in Peru irate over US patents on 'natural viagra'

Left high and dry

Drought-like spell in J&K spells doom for saffron farmers

Organic route

Kenyan green court dismisses lawsuit challenging government decision to allow import of GM crops

Ruling likely to have far-reaching ramifications, including informing policy across the East and Central Africa region

Rajasthan probes GM mustard trial

Crop trial centres say steps were taken to avoid contamination

Aiding agenda

Checking a menace

A virus is being used to destroypests that damage the chickpea crop

Food for thought

Rat menace

The flowering of the bamboo is bad news for the people in Mizoram

Acrylamide for snacks

Starch-rich foodstuff can become carcinogenic when exposed to high temperatures

MSP calculations still continue with old formula & not on comprehensive cost

If the recommendations were followed, the MSP of the six crops would be higher