Lowland rice is a carbon sink

Pratap Bhattacharyya, senior scientist at the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Odisha, along with his team at the institute, says rice …

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes

Flood resistance rice comes to rescue

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Solving poverty

Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research …

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

Bangladesh wants hybrid paddy, experts wary

Weighty task

It is not easy to measure nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, emitted from Indian farms

Chhattisgarh proactive in checking illegal BT rice trials

UN body sets limit on arsenic levels in rice

Codex Commission to develop a new code of practice to help countries comply with the standard

How useful is genome decoding?

Scientists decode pigeon pea at the cost of Rs 11 crore  

PDS protests in West Bengal

India's strategies for rice congress

India's notification on Superbasmati raises eyebrows in Pakistan

SOUTH ASIA

US biotech to plant GM rice with human genes

Maharashtra approves field trials of GM food crops

Only GM cotton is grown in fields in India as of now

Mark of distinction

Genetic marker for authenticating Darjeeling tea

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The many ways of GM contamination

Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist in the food and environment programme at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), is among the most …

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Kerala says no to GM crop

Agriculture is egocentric

Norman Uphoff, professor emeritus of government and international agriculture at Cornell University, US, likes to say that the system of rice …

South Asia

GM field trials now need panchayat nod