How Bt brinjal was cleared

Anti-GM groups say expert panel acted under pressure

Farmers demand complete ban on GM crops

US environmental body proposes temporary pesticide-free zones to protect honeybees

A large number of bees are exposed to pesticide spraying when growers enter into contracts with beekeepers for pollination services

Pollinators in peril

Profiting from disaster

Zoramthanga , the chief minister of Mizoram, has many reasons to reminisce the birth of his party, the Mizo National Front, an insurgent group …

Tracking the pests

Pesticide resistant flies are observed

Provide farmers with means to salvage wet grains, M S Swaminathan tells states

Agriculture scientist also suggests maintaining seed reserves for growing alternate short-duration crops

Hailstorms hit Maharashtra yet again

Several thousand hectares of crops stand destroyed

Facing- rough weather

Scientists are making gloomy predictions that rising temperatures shall jeopardise not just human health but our crops as well

Hot conversion

Use of forestland for agriculture causes climate change

Probing a pesticide tragedy

Laboratory tests nail the Plantation Corporation of Kerala. The state government sets up an inquiry committee

Farm differently

Report>>A report riles industrial farming nations and agribusiness

Biofuels more dangerous than fossil fuels

ICAR’s shoddy science

Inquiry panel finds Bt cotton project had serious flaws, scientists were unethical

In short

Halt GM crops

Green signal for Bt brinjal

Final nod from environment ministry in February 2010

Report on GM crops unfortunate: industry

The parliamentary committee on agriculture has strongly criticised the regulatory system on genetically modified (GM) crops in the country, …

Fewer honeybees could mean less food

Food prices spur inflation

GM crop benefits are all in future

Nearly 40 years ago, Marc Van Montagu of Ghent University in Belgium, along with fellow researcher Jeff Schell, discovered that Agrobacterium …

India compromises on WTO deal

Under pressure from the US, it accepts conditions not part of G-33 proposal

Stage set for GM crops

Centre hastily tables Bill on biotech regulation in Parliament

Predicting doom

Global warming will impact crop production

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