PPV&FR is a statutory body set up under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001. The authority ruling came over a p...

Noting that women contribute significantly to the country's farming sector, the organisers have laid out elaborate plans to let women farme...

On January 4, the seventh round of talks ended inconclusively as the unions stuck to their demand for a complete repeal of three farm laws,...

"The government is open to look into various amendments," a government official told Reuters, ahead of a meeting between farmers and minist...

The bills remove restrictions on sale and transportation of farm produce and allows them to enter into contracts with large buyers at an as...

Acting on advice of an expert committee, the Centre has banned use of 12 pesticides with immediate effect and issued orders for banning six...

Over 100 civil society organisations from 15 states have flagged several loopholes in the Centre’s draft National Forest Policy 2018 and qu...

Activists punch holes in the provisional figures shared by the government saying the dip in numbers was due to a tweak in the categories.

The Bhartiya Kisan Sangh, farmers' group linked to the RSS, on Wednesday joined hands with anti-GM groups in their protest against regulato...

The protesters believed that the GM crops will affect farmers in the long run and went to question the legitimacy of the approval given by ...

Kuruganti said more than 10 organisations from Gujarat are also expected to take part in the protest.

Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) had constituted a sub-committee of scientific experts to examine the biosafety data on GM mu...

He said the public authority did not honour its own commitment to furnish the details and on June 28, 2016 they sought another extension, t...

If the decision finally goes in favour of the commercial release of the GM mustard, it will be the first food crop to be cleared for cultiv...

The Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) along with other NGOs today urged all political parties to include livelihood security for farm households i...

Farmers today demanded a complete ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and food in India saying it would not only affect humans and lives...

In allowing large-scale trials of Bt Brinjal, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the environment ministry may have violat...