'Poor nations need Codex education'

Sanjay Dave, director of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), was recently elected chairperson of …

Andhra to promote chemical free cultivation

State's rural development and agriculture departments to work together to encourage organic farming

A date with the palm

Savvy Soumya Misra spends a day with Mahoba’s palm collectors to find out why a card touches a raw chord amongst them

Saving for rainy days

People of West Bengal’s Sunderbans region are setting up grain banks to safeguard against food crisis

Hard time for honeybees

Entomologist May Berenbaum of University of Illinois in USA has inspired a character in TV series, X-Files. The winner of this year’s Tyler …

Centre favours manufacture of endosulfan

Says disposal will cost Rs 210 crore while using existing raw material stock to manufacture the pesticide will increase crop production

Endosulfan ban to continue

Supreme Court appointed committee fails to submit interim report    

Can endosulfan be exported?

Supreme Court asks panel to explore possibilities of disposing of the pesticide  

SC raps FSSAI

Asks it to reconstitute panels examining the harmful effects of chemicals and toxins in carbonated beverages and other food items

Wavering

PM qualifies Bt brinjal moratorium

Genetic Engineering Approval Committee to decide moratorium period

Intensive agriculture gets a boost

Market hand

Climate-ready

Tuber trouble

Paddy sells cheap in Kerala

No to organic farming

Sweet victory

UPs cane farmers get to quote their price in a sellers market

Not ready for rabi

Sugarcane stir

Irregularities galore in Bt trials

Pests ruin paddy on 89,000 ha

Warm winter may affect crops

Parliament ratifies sugarcane bill

Mill owners to challenge bill

Andhra farmers to earn more