Agriculture
Australian farm registry reveals
08 Sep 2016
Government finds GM mustard safe, seeks comments
06 Sep 2016
Modi inaugurates Phase-1 of Rs12,000-cr Saurashtra irrigation project
30 Aug 2016
The Sauni project is an engineering marvel that involves lifting huge amounts of water through hundreds of kilometres to fill 115 dams across Saurashtra
Monsanto, allies desert National Seeds Association over pricing, royalty issues
27 Aug 2016
Things came to head after the National Seeds Association backed the May 2016 Gazette notification that reasserted the government’s right to fix seed prices
Scientists battling to save bananas from extinction in just 5-10 years
18 Aug 2016
The ubiquitous banana – one of the world’s top five staple foods – could become extinctinct in just five to 10 years due to fast-advancing fungal diseases, scientists have warned
Farm incomes too low, leading to inequality: Jaitley
25 Jul 2016
He said the country cannot afford to have 55 per cent of its people in agriculture whose contribution to the national GDP is only 16 per cent