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

South African ad authority hard on Monsanto

Climate-ready

A high support price for pulses

How good is it for farmers, consumers?

News 360° - Briefs

Rajasthan probes GM mustard trial

Crop trial centres say steps were taken to avoid contamination

Farmers give silver lining to famine clouds

A country where millions have died of starvation can now hope to achieve self-sufficiency in food, with the UN predicting record harvests of …

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

Ground realities

Foodgrain production will have to increase by 5 million tonnes every year to meet rising demand

Acrylamide for snacks

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

"GMOs will not feed the world"

Instant rice

A rice variety saves fuel, holds hope for Orissa

Under attack

Mile-a-minute solution

Fungus to weed out the plague of India's tea plantations

Pigeonpea now smiles

Virus causing disease in a crop identified

In custody

E-choupal in legal thresher

GM soya yields less