COVID-19: Experts look at mushrooms for employment, immunity concerns

The Directorate of Mushroom Research in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan announced release of four new high-yielding strains of mushrooms recently 

Moily bats for GM trials

After he revives regulatory body for GM crops, industry demands removal of state clearances

All the way to Brazil to find Vidarbha cotton solution

Government takes seven years to admit Bt cotton has failed in Vidarbha and return to Desi varieties

ICAR chases patents for pickle

The National Research Centre on Meat has odd ideas on what can be patented

Jungle raj

CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom

Scientists’ panel to add new member for report on GM field trials

Weeks after expert committee recommended moratorium Supreme Court agrees to agriculture ministry's request to add new member to panel

Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops

Calls for a national policy on GM crops in its report to Parliament

Time to nail pesticides

Centre forms expert committee to frame policy to check residues in fruits, vegetables

Science under siege

Agricultural science has ossified in India. Despite a vast network of public research institutions and agriculture universities across the country,…

Organic Universe

Organic is all the rage. Organic food, cosmetics, clothes and even organic medicines. But mostly it is food. There are speciality stores that …

Indefinite moratorium on GM field trials recommended

Supreme Court’s expert panel of scientists for ban on herbicide tolerant crops for India

Indefinite ban on GM field trials recommended

Supreme Court’s expert panel of scientists also against herbicide-tolerant crops for India