GM dispute

US and EU to battle it out

Tea break

New EU import rule, a crisis for Sri Lankan tea export

Asbestos, endosulfan escape blacklist

Ranbaxy in a spot

Inequalities keep shifting as knowledge enters market

Himalayan herbal heritage fading

The scent that sells

Guar mine

Farmers in Rajasthan make big bucks as shale gas rush boosts demand for little-known cluster bean

Two leaves and a bud

Chirala saree weavers losing out to computer-aided designs

Shrimp does not pay

Ecuador

Sri Lanka bans export of high-value medicinal plant

Poultry trade down with bird flu

Lac grows on plant

Scientists find a way to cultivate lac that is less labourintensive and more profitable

Farmers on holiday

Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space

China biggest polluter, says Dutch study

UPDATE: Food crunch

Sharks in soup

India goes against world in not banning shark fin trade

Homeless hilsa

The ocean fish that swims against the tide to spawn in rivers is moving away from Bangladesh

Developing countries are dumpyards for e-waste

A recent study in the US shows that by 2004, over 315 million computers will become obsolete. By 2005, for every single computer an American buys,…

A fish moves west

Ten years ago Bangladesh’s rivers were deeper and hilsa plentiful. Silting, dams and pollution pushed the fisher into deep ocean leading to …

Seafood ban

Pakistan exporters suffer

South Asia

EU rejects Indian grapes

Contains lihocin, a growth regulator not regulated in India