Lemongrass oil offers a natural way to deter house lizards by masking their scent attractants and reducing insect prey. Its strong citrus a...

Cypermethrin, an insecticide used in agriculture and sanitation, controls pests on crops such as cotton, vegetables, corn, and flowers, acc...

ICAR-NBAIR discovered 63 new insect species in 2023-2024, obtained five patents for innovations in pest management, and commercialized 47 t...

“No person shall use glyphosate except through Pest Control Operators,” the draft notification read. The ministry has given 30 days for obj...

The new prices will come into effect from the 2018 kharif season starting June. A packet of Bt cotton seeds is of 450 gram.

India has the fifth largest area under GM crop cultivation, and Bt cotton seeds account for 40% of the Rs 14,000 crore national seeds marke...

It is "unfair" and "breach of principles of natural justice" to hold seed companies responsible based on "media reports", alleged the Fed F...

Bengaluru, May 31 (IANS) India introduced genetically-modified cotton (Bt-cotton) containing Bt-toxins capable of killing the cotton pest w...

Bengaluru, Sep 11 (IANS) While the controversy over Monsanto's Bt cotton has not yet died down, a new transgenic variety is at India's door...

Mentioning one more frugal measure of this kind, Gupta said that it has been shown in studies that cooking in iron vessel is beneficial for...

CICR has introduced Bt genes into 21 cotton seed varieties, which scientists say can be provided to farmers at 10% of the price of hybrid s...

The second generation Bt cotton variety, Bollgard II, introduced by Monsanto in 2006, is supposed to be resistant to Pink Bollworm pest.

The Punjab government has already sent these samples to the Union Agriculture Ministry.

Punjab has nearly 12 lakh acres under cotton this year and almost all of it is Bt cotton, which is resistant to some major pests such as bo...

Bt cotton technology has attracted young farmers to cotton farming in the country, a survey by Indian Society for Cotton Improvement (ISCI)...

The cotton and Vegetable growers of Sirsa district are a worried lot as their crops have been invaded by the deadly Mili-Bug.

A multi-year ethnography by Glenn Davis Stone from Washington University shows that Warangal Bt cotton farming has led to ‘agricultural des...