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Letters

Letters

Dip in yield, low protein content: PAU field experiment finds several problems with nano urea

Production can decrease further year on year if nano urea application is continued

Sustainable agriculture: Punjab needs policies to support crop diversification

Growing maize instead of paddy can reduce water use by 60-70% 

Brazil’s GM corns no more resistant against bugs

Farmers demand compensation as seed companies blame farmers

Can President Mukherjee redress this farmer’s grievance?

World record holder for highest paddy yield awaits certification

With IT villages

Elsewhere the bubble may have burst, but in rural India infotech is alive and kicking

Moneymakers

A sticky label

US biotech industry gears up to play dirty in Europe

Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana has been extended for five more months

Activists and experts welcome Prime Minister Modi’s announcement

Letter

European food regulatory body rejects French ban on GM maize

Scientific evidence found lacking in indicating risk to health, environment

Unhealthy levels of arsenic in water could exacerbate health concerns when used to boil rice

Rice, staple of over half of humanity, already has more arsenic than other grains; washing or boiling it with arsenic-contaminated water poses …

How Odisha is promoting climate-resilient agriculture through rice fallow initiative

Cultivation of short-duration pulse, oilseed crops in rice fallow is helping maximise land use efficiency, boost farmers’ income and …

Vampireweed threatens rice production in Africa. What do we know about it?

Associated annual economic losses amount to $82 million, affecting more than 140,000 rural households  

Ghanaians love rice — how smallholder farmers could harvest more of it with the help of machines

Efforts to produce more rice often results in increased labour-intensive work for smallholder farmers