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...
05 Nov, 2025, 01.49 PM IST
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...
06 Jan, 2025, 12.20 AM IST
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 ...
05 Nov, 2024, 11.24 AM IST
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...
30 Jun, 2023, 10.39 AM IST
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...
21 Jul, 2022, 12.51 PM IST
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...
02 Dec, 2021, 02.51 PM IST
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.
16 Dec, 2018, 06.14 AM IST
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...
12 Oct, 2017, 03.51 PM IST
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...
12 Jan, 2017, 03.09 PM IST
Sidbi issues Rs 10 crore each to Ankur Cap, Omnivore PartnersThe ASPIRE Fund was launched by MSME minister Kalraj Mishra in Mumbai this week.
21 Oct, 2016, 08.57 AM IST
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.
16 Jun, 2016, 03.08 AM IST
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...
31 Mar, 2016, 10.15 AM IST
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.
21 Jan, 2016, 04.16 PM IST
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.
01 Apr, 2014, 04.50 AM IST
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...
26 Feb, 2014, 09.16 AM IST
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...
18 Feb, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
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.
21 Feb, 2012, 08.27 AM IST