Home run

J&K halts export of willow clefts used for making cricket bats

An organic cup of tea

The right mix of quality and profits

Shrimps are serious business

A climate change for the artisan

Will demand for eco-friendly goods mean a decline in artisnal skills?

Manmohan's bag of magical budgeting tricks

The finance minister's targets for restructuring -- lower fiscal deficit, stronger economic recovery and higher exports -- form the core of his …

Carpet industry in UP faces boycott threat

Foreign buyers of Indian carpets insist that if child weavers are employed, they will not accept the product. The Indian government and …

Deadly generosity

Eighty-four nations may have 'agreed' to ban the export of poisonous wastes, but major players in the trade like Germany could ruin the …

Book review: Commercial cultivation of medicinal plants

It is an obvious business risk for a farmer to give up growing conventional crops that have assured returns and start growing medicinal plants. …

Ranbaxy effect: Indian government defends pharma industry

Few isolated cases cannot undermine well regulated system, says commerce ministry

Basmati rice exporters demand government support to improve exports

International prices of basmati have been declining over the last two years

Tending turtles

It's all in the name

Thai farmers and activists object to a US company's use of the name Jasmati for a rice variety

Open secret

Were medicinal plants exported without government permission?

Free for all

Free exports of herbs could mean the death knell for India's biodiversity

Tough measure

Industry wants alien shrimp

Marine feuds are festering sores in Kerala

Kerala's coast has become a battleground between traditional and mechanised fishing communities, jeopardising the marine ecosystem.

Tea time tales

Darjeeling tea estates turn bio-organic as Germany threatens to boycott tea containing pesticide traces

Rustling for hair

Tainted meat

India outsources agriculture

Cotton exports deferred

Farmers fear losses in spite of predictions of a bumper harvest

Pesticide use results in dwindling exports

Despite restrictions on harmful pesticides, their use by farmers continues. This is forcing foreign countries to reduce imports substantially of …

SAVING THE STURGEON

Leading caviar exporting nations agree to voluntarily restrict sturgeon fishing to pre-empt a ban by CITES

Cultural icon

Bengalis on both sides of the border agree hilsa from the Padma is far superior to hilsa from the Ganga