From resistance to change to digital transformation, agriculture has come a long way. Digital start-ups are connecting smallholder farmers with…
Just as IRCTC made online railway reservations popular, e-NAM, under the new legal framework, can make digital trading de rigeur…
Setting benchmarks for carbon sequestered or abated through farming and roping in companies to commercialise carbon credits can create a…
Pusa Decomposer, as it called after the name of the institute’s campus in Delhi, is a mix of seven fungi…
Confined field trials of genetically-modified crops and confounded agri-tech companies
To avoid collateral damage, the domestic industry has adopted the Indian Palm Oil Sustainability Framework in association with an NGO.…
Do these bans and restrictions have a scientific basis?
It is difficult to Understand why the govt has refused permission to Flipkart for online food retailing, citing FDI policy,…
Three-tier mixed species forests along the Yamuna can scrub air columns of pollutants
Everyone in the banana supply chain seems to be gaining from the lockdown, except growers.
The federation cites China, Thailand and the Philippines as examples of countries that have given priority for seeds among goods…
About 10 diesel pumps in the vicinity of the solar pumps became uncompetitive and quit the market. The cooperative’s members…
If ICAR is to reinvent itslef as an agile research organisation and India’s public agricultural R&D infrastructure is to be…
In Argentina, which is a large food exporter, if the final plant variety has transgenic material, it is regulated as…
The sandy loam of the Indo-Gangetic Plain is just right for onions as it drains well. A drive, thus, to…
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) estimates that Punjab and Haryana produced 28 million tonnes of rice straw in…
Crop yield is influenced by the genetic traits of seeds, as also by factors like composition of the soil, organic…
From developing varieties that don’t need flooding of fields to enriching the grain’s nutrient content, IRRI is making rice a…
