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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Public protests mount against Bt brinjal

Supreme Court seeks details on steps to protect indigenous varieties

Brazil’s GM corns no more resistant against bugs

Farmers demand compensation as seed companies blame farmers

India set to grow biofortified crop

Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012

Call for moratorium on biofuel

Scientists warn PM against GM contamination

Ask government to be cautious of Bangladesh's Bt Brinjal cultivation

400,000 people petition parliament panel to withdraw BRAI Bill

Deadline for public feedback on biotechnology Bill expires August 25

Bt Brinjal – the war goes on

Pro Bt Brinjal group releases a report challenging contention that the vegetable is used in medicine