Ankur Warikoo shares four vegetarian protein-rich food items helped him burn belly fat and build six-pack abs at 44. Check out his fitness planAt 44, Ankur Warikoo underwent a remarkable fitness transformation, achieving visible six-pack abs and improved health metrics over 18 mont...
Agrochem company Crystal Crop buys Bayer's herbicide input businessCrystal Crop Protection, an agrochemical firm, has acquired the herbicide active ingredient Ethoxysulfuron from Germany's Bayer AG. This ac...
Crystal Crop acquires I&B Seeds to expand vegetable, flower seed businessCrystal Crop Protection has acquired I&B Seeds to bolster its presence in the vegetable and flower seed market. The acquisition, funded by ...
Newer pests and diseases hit vegetable cropsThe rising prices of daily essentials like tomatoes, ginger, and tur dal can be attributed to newer plant viruses that are resistant to mos...
Piatrika Biosystems raises $1.2 million in seed funding from Ankur CapitalPiatrika Biosystems is building a new innovative cloud-based enterprise Platform-As-A-Service (PAAS) for agri-genomic discoveries, plant br...
Crystal Crop completes acquisition of 4 hybrid seeds from BayerThe seed business acquired by CCPL represents a very small portion of Bayer's Indian and global business portfolio. The two companies had a...
Climate change is paving the way for shock-proof seedsClimate change is threatening 120-million farmers and over 500 cos of India’s Rs 15,000 cr seed industry.
Monsanto settles Rs300cr royalty dispute with 3 local seed cosMahyco Monsanto Biotech Ltd (MMBL), a joint venture firm of Monsanto, has sub-licensed Bt cotton seed technology to various domestic seed c...
SkillVeri raises Rs 8 crore from Dell Foundation, Ankur CapitalSkillVeri would leverage this investment to enable training of 5,00,000 youth for well-paying aspirational manufacturing jobs over the next...
Sidbi issues Rs 10 crore each to Ankur Cap, Omnivore PartnersThe ASPIRE Fund was launched by MSME minister Kalraj Mishra in Mumbai this week.
CCI to probe three more new complaints against MonsantoThe new complaints pertain to abuse of dominant position by way of imposing discriminatory conditions in sub-license agreements.
Freed from Monsanto's patent rights, private seed companies consider production of non-hybrid Bt cotton seedsIndia’s private seed companies are for the first time considering production of non-hybrid Bt cotton seeds, seeking to benefit from the gov...
Seed company Namdeo Umaji launches ugaao.com portal for urban gardenersNamdeo Umaji, a 130-year-old seeds company, has launched an urban farming and gardening portal ugaoo.com.
Bt Cotton seed sales likely to jump 3-5 per centSeed companies expect the sale of Bt cotton seeds to increase 3% to 5% in the kharif season.
Ankur Capital bets on real India, invests in three early-stage rural venturesThe Mumbai-based venture capital fund is backing CropIn, a cloud-based farm mgmt systems company, home compost solutions provider Daily Dum...
Hybrid seed sector on way to see next wave of consolidationThe Indian hybrid seed market, with over 300 companies, has been growing at 15-20 per cent annually over the past several years and is proj...
Maharashtra gets tough with seed companies selling dudsCompanies that sell vegetable seeds to farmers have come under the scanner in Maharashtra following a rise in complaints about dud seeds.