A crisis is looming in the spinning centres around Coimbatore, which make coarse yarn and in the Karur Chennimala regions,…
The proposed river link will also help in filling hundreds of irrigation tanks, the lifeline of agriculture. Agriculture is still…
Cotton production in India in 2007-08 is estimated by the Cotton Association of India, to be at a record level…
Tanners in India are looking at production of upholstery leather and products in a big way. Now the upholstery leather…
Wind power is becoming a mainstream energy source. Over 20,000 mw of wind turbines were installed in 2007 bringing world-…
Fall in production in western Europe and stagnation, coupled with labour and power problems in China, provide a unique opportunity…
International Rice Research Institute has set out plans to reach 18 million poor households in South Asia and Africa with…
Farmers of Vempavur village, in Perambalur district, in Tamil Nadu have decided to increase the acreage under genetically modified Bt…
Treatment of burns and diabetic ulcers and cosmetic surgery has become affordable to millions of patients in India and other…
Changing fashion trends and environmental awareness of consumers in developed countries have created niche markets for eco-friendly products like vegetable-tanned…
Studies have reported that 20 countries, 12 in Asia including India and Bangladesh, have high levels of arsenic, a poisonous…
India can become the global hub for the manufacture of technical textiles and non-wovens, for which there is a huge…
World grain production in 2007 is at a record level of 2.316 billion tonne, a jump of 95 million tonne…
Renewable energy is fast emerging globally?from an alternative source of energy to a mainstream energy option ?in less than a…
Scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia, have combined disease resistance genes from three different grass species…
The current status of the textile mills in Tamil Nadu are uncertain and uneconomic owing to factors like rising yarn…
Food prices have been falling from the Green Revolution days in the 1970s. But in the new millennium, income growth,…
The debate over the efficiency of Bt cotton is still raging in almost all cotton growing regions, especially in Andhra…
