Agriculture PolicyAugust 20, 2020Three Notifications for Banning Chemical Pesticides or Restricting their Use: Govt Must Make Haste Slowly By vivian fernandes Farmers and the pesticide industry are agitated over a series of draft notifications proposing bans…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyAugust 6, 2020Restrictions on the Spraying of Weed Killer Glyphosate will Raise the Unease of Doing Agriculture By vivian fernandes If a technical body under the Insecticides Act overrules the objections, farmers will not be…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingApril 1, 2020Govt Scraps Trait Fees on Bayer's Proprietary Bollgard II Cottonseed, Keeps Retail Price Unchanged By vivian fernandes Ideological, and not economic, reasons are behind the government’s move to scrap trait fees on…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBt cottonJanuary 17, 2018Rich Europe Can Ignore GM Technology; India and African Nations Cannot, Says India Head of Bayer CropScience By admin There is a role for organic farming, but it is a niche role; it cannot feed 10 billion people, which…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBriefingAugust 27, 2016New Industry Association, FSII, Emerges From Seeds of Division By admin Agri-biotech research companies upped the ante with at least 10 of the prominent ones breaking away…Read more 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBt cottonOctober 16, 2015Impact of White Fly Outbreak Shows Up Punjab Govt, PAU and Pesticide Companies By admin At Pathrala railway station on the Bhatinda-Bikaner line farmers are squatting on carpet-covered…Read more 0 0 0 Share