Tamil Nadu blacklists Mahyco's Bt Cotton seeds after crop failures

Seeds of Strife

The Seed Bill takes away states’ power to regulate seed prices, could lead to Centre-state confrontation

The GM question

Are hybrid maize seeds being promoted to pave the way for GM maize?

Seed restoration

Monsanto wins against Indiana farmer

US Supreme Court says that planting and harvesting Monsanto’s patented seeds amounts to making additional copies of the company's patented …

Seeds of discontent?

India's first legislation aimed at protecting farmers' rights raises many apprehensions

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New insurance lets farmers down

Unions demand individual coverage

Idea of farmer wisdom is relentlessly manipulated

As a visiting American academic, Glenn Davis Stone has put in over 60 weeks of field research on the impact of Bt cotton on farmers in Andhra …

Kagga in peril

This rice can tolerate brackish water but is on the brink of extinction. Can government save it?

Marking neem

Neem clones identified by Indian scientists will boost export of neem-based products

A debt-ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers

Mourn

But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge

Village Punukula's different

Managing yields without pesticides

Out on their own

Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers

Cattle deaths at Bt cotton fields trigger biosafety fear

Will seeds bill make it this time?

Opposition parties say the draft is still not farmer-friendly

Built to last

A Rajasthan village has cylindrical houses that help people cope with extreme weather events

Orange tumbles

Nagpur orange’s survival hinges precariously on its return to sustainable cultivation. Farmers have woken up to this, but will the government?

FARM IP, ENTER WIPO

Developing countries will now have to battle IP issues related to new agricultural technologies at WIPO instead of WTO

Breach of trust

The world’s premier rice research institute tilts towards intellectual property rights

Food safety

In the wake of genetically-modified food flooding the Indian markets, 25 farmers' groups call for a 10-year moratorium on such food

Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

Beware the modified wolf

Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of …

INEVITABLE TRAGEDY

SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers' suicide lies one decade of …