Coromandel launches 10 new products to boost crop yieldsCoromandel has partnered with Japan's ISK to launch Prachand, a patented product using Japanese technology to protect paddy crops from pest...
24 May, 2024, 08.41 PM IST
Food shortages in China might push Xi Jinping to take drastic actions against Taiwan and elsewhereOn top of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, torrential rains have caused catastrophic flooding in the Yangtze River basin, China’s l...
26 Sep, 2020, 04.36 PM IST
With rising population and declining arable land, China may be staring at a major food crisisSince 1949, China lost one fifth of its arable land to urbanisation and industrialisation and currently only about 10 to 15 per cent of the...
05 Sep, 2020, 09.36 AM IST
India needs to curb illegal seed technology, strengthen IPR regime to boost farm investments, says Bayer CropScience COOMajor cotton producing countries like USA, Brazil and African countries are moving ahead of India with new technology, and competitiveness ...
21 Feb, 2020, 03.17 PM IST
Poultry firms’ margins to fall sharply in FY20: IcraOperating margins may decline sharply due to increased prices of key ingredients.
18 Feb, 2020, 02.00 PM IST
Food grain output seen at 140.57 million tonne in FY20 on monsoon boostProduction of monsoon-sown food grain is expected to be 140.57 mt in 2019-20, up by 8.4 mt from average output in the past five years, the ...
07 Oct, 2019, 07.06 PM IST
Buy Gujarat Ambuja Exports, target Rs 330: SBICAP SecuritiesGujarat Ambuja Exports is a smallcap company, operating in edible fat sector.
03 Jul, 2019, 10.11 AM IST
Chicken to become cheaper as soya meal prices likely to fallIndustry executives said soya meal exports plunged 75.7 per cent year-on-year in May.
12 Jun, 2019, 10.07 AM IST
9 ways tech made the world a better placeThe AgriPredict app forecasts the probability of pest invasions, including the voracious fall armyworm, which eats crops and has wreaked ha...
26 Dec, 2018, 09.54 AM IST
DowDuPont withdrew GM Corn trials as requisite states didn't give permissionSubbarao KV, MD (South Asia), Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division of DowDuPont, also said that once the Genetic Engineering Appra...
26 Oct, 2018, 03.18 PM IST
Agronomists strive to contain a brand new American pestFall armyworm is native to the Americas and was first reported to have reached Africa in 2016.
13 Oct, 2018, 01.19 PM IST
Fall Armyworm, considered threat for global food security spreads from maize to sugarcane in IndiaFirst detected in Karnataka in May, the presence of Fall Armyworm has been confirmed in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and West Beng...
09 Oct, 2018, 09.44 AM IST
Fall Armyworm spreads to five states in IndiaScientists are concerned about the possibility of the pest spreading to other crops.
09 Oct, 2018, 09.01 AM IST
Jobs changing with Artificial Intelligence but no mass unemployment expected: UN labour expertJobs more likely to be impacted are in service sectors such as construction, health care and business.
05 Sep, 2018, 03.38 PM IST