Based in Delhi, the scientist from Odisha, Nayak will formally receive the Borlaug Field Award during a ceremony at the 2023 Norman E. Borl...

Norman Borlaug’s battle against world hunger, which won him the Nobel Peace Prize 50 years ago, was fuelled at least in part by his own exp...

There are hard scientific facts in favour of GM foods. Yet, activists still take the old alarmist stance.

He said Modi will also inaugurate three new projects - Farmers First, Arya and Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav (My village my pride).

The award "honours the innovative spirit of farmers", he said adding that "without their contributions, my research wouldn't have been poss...

India-born Mexican scientist Sanjaya Rajaram has been presented with the prestigious World Food Prize 2014 for his agricultural research th...

The World Food Prize, presented at the 2014 Borlaug Dialogue, currently being held in Des Moines, United States, from October 15-17.

Borlaug was an outspoken supporter of GM crops. He blasted anti-GM activists as alarmists ignorant of nature and spreading falsehoods based...

World Food Prize was established by Borlaug in order to focus the world's attention on hunger and on those whose work has significantly hel...

Rajaram's breakthrough achievement in successfully cross-breeding winter and spring wheat varieties, which were distinct gene pools.

Sugar output in the marketing year beginning October 2013 may exceed the current year's 25 million tonnes as good monsoon rains help yield.

GM (Bt) Cotton has brought spectacular benefits to India’s farmers and to the nation’s economy. India could and should continue to lead the...

Both yield-enhancement and yield-stabilisation are critical for feeding a global population of over seven billion, and still increasing.

Global seeds major Monsanto has earmarked a grant of $ 10 mn for promoting research on the two staple foodgrains.

Norman Borlaug was 56 when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having sparked the Green Revolution. Characteristically, the agronomist...

By cranking up a wheat strain containing an unusual gene, Borlaug created the so-called “semi-dwarf ’’ plant variety, a shorter, stubbier, ...

Long before Mr Bush and Dr Rice came by to leapfrog US-India ties to a new level, it was Prof Wheat who jumpstarted and nourished the relat...