Green innovation steals the show at SEED Awards

An Indian enterprise and 27 African ventures win prize for sustainable business models empowering communities

Soy seed crunch hits farmers in Maharashtra

Farmers sceptical of agricultural department’s strategy of using previous year’s crop as seed to meet this year’s kharif demand

CAG raps fisheries board for failed project to provide shrimp seeds to farmers

Report finds loopholes in agreement to set up seed multiplication centre

India's genome saviours

Farmers and organisations who have won government recognition this year for conserving seeds of indigenous crops and plant species

Global report on challenges faced by seed sector launched

Focuses on need to stop seed laws that are preventing farmers from saving and exchanging their indigenous varieties  

Large-scale germination failure in soybean, Maharashtra farmers hit hard

Could speed up decline of the crop in the region

Maharashtra bans 15 seed companies permanently

25,000 farmers await compensation from firms that supplied soy seeds with very low germination rate

Green power

The seed of a humble tree may be a substitute for diesel and could hasten rural electrification

Soy seed racket busted in Maharashtra

Regional manager suspended

GM maize: Argentine province rejects Monsanto's EIA report

A major setback for world’s largest agro biotech

Agrarian crisis: farmers from 15 states protest at Delhi Jantar Mantar

They demand moratorium on land acquisition; farmers' suicides, falling incomes and GMOs on list of concerns

Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops

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

'Bt cotton has improved farmers' lives'

At the same time genetically modified cotton has increased fertilizer and water usage, resulting in high input costs, says study funded by farmers'…

Monsanto told to quit India

Farmers from 20 states to present national flag made from non-Bt organic cotton to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for Independence Day

New Independence struggle

Return of the woods

Two decades of toil have given back to Seed village in Udaipur a forest that villagers felt had been destroyed forever

Farmers split on merits of Dunkel proposals

The attack on a Bangalore seed company was reported as the start of a farmers' movement against globalisation of agriculture. Now, some …

Farmers split on merits of Dunkel proposals

The attack on a Bangalore seed company was reported as the start of a farmers' movement against globalisation of agriculture. Now, some farmers …

Remember the farmer?

WHOSE SEED IS IT ANYWAY?

The rich world’s mania for patenting seeds and pushing the UPOV agenda do not aid food security or biological diversity

Monsanto does it again

The biotech seed giant sues a farmer for planting unbranded commodity seeds bought in the open market for patent infringement