Cuts in research funding heighten fears that agriculture and rural sectors will face delayed policy focus, say stakeholders.

ICAR has revamped its selection process for top scientific posts, shifting to a merit-based, post-oriented approach.

Five Indians from diverse academic backgrounds, including law, philosophy, and astrophysics, have been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Schol...

The world is developing an appetite for seaweed, a climate-friendly plant that can replace plastics & has uses in fuel, food and pharma sec...

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is hiring young candidates for 9 Scientist-‘B’ positions in various fields. The recruitment process wi...

Indian companies are taking millets-based products to international markets to gain a first-mover advantage. This comes after the spotlight...

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Once the varieties get the GI tag, producers of these mangoes are likely to fetch a good price and farmers of other regions cannot market t...

Bioactive pharmacophore leads from seaweeds were used to develop this product, which can be administered orally to regulatehypertension.

Creating an all time-record, India’s public sector agriculture research institutions led by the ICAR had released 310 new crop varieties du...

Insurance companies, faced with huge claims, discounted the payout all across and genuine farmers got much less than their due; while the p...

The only GM product allowed for commercial cultivation in the country, Bt cotton has made India the largest cotton producer in the world.

The farm sector is getting increasing attention from investors and accelerators who are keen on supporting early-stage entrepreneurs.

Learning to control these pathways is not easy because they keep talking to each other, and there is no reliable way to find out whether on...

The two-day workshop on national surveillance programme for aquatic animal diseases concluded at National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources ...

The government plans to launch a national project for the food processing industries during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-17).

The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a slew of pro-farmer measures including the setting up of a National Commission for Farmers, with its ...