BriefingJuly 25, 2019Keep Milk and Milk Products Out of Proposed Free Trade Deal with 16 Countries By vivian fernandes Dairy products must be kept out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) as cheap…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyJuly 25, 2019Dairying, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries to be Roads to Rural Prosperity with Creation of New Ministry: Secretary Shridhar By vivian fernandes Fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying will get the importance they deserve with the creation of a…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyJuly 24, 2019Not Just the Essential Commodities Act, Collateral Enforcement is Also a Big Worry, Says the "Oyo" of Warehousing By vivian fernandes Investors in the warehousing industry are realizing that getting the police to help enforce…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyJuly 22, 2019HTBt Not Needed For Cotton Fields To Be Sprayed With Weedicide, Says Excel Crop Care Executive By vivian fernandes While farmers of Maharashtra and Haryana are planting HTBt cotton tolerant to the herbicide…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingJuly 17, 2019The Irony of a State Contracting Debt To Make Its Zero-Budget Natural Farmers Debt-Free By vivian fernandes Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced in the budget that India will go ‘back to…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingJuly 16, 2019Agrichemicals Industry Must Reassure Consumers that Residue-Free Food is Affordably Safe By vivian fernandes The agr1chemicals industry must not live in denial but take measures to reassure consumers that the…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingJuly 16, 2019Agricultural Progress will be Driven by Science, Not Sentiment for the Golden Past: R. G Agarwal of Dhanuka Agritech By vivian fernandes Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee added the bit about ‘Jai Vigyan,’ to his predecessor, Lal…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBriefingBt technologyJuly 7, 2019Protest Planting of Unapproved HTBt Cotton: What's the Way Out? By vivian fernandes The government cannot approve the cultivation of HTBt cotton because the technology is…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBiodiversityBriefingJuly 7, 2019Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Wants to Go Back to Basics with Zero-Budget Natural Farming. Does it Work? By vivian fernandes Vivian Fernandes has been following this government’s fascination with Zero-Budget Natural…Read more 0 0 0 Share
