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Rice feeds more than half the world, but 3 toxic metals can travel from paddy soil into its grains; researchers propose changing soil chemistry and reinforcing plant barriers to keep arsenic, cadmium and mercury outRice grain contaminated with toxic metals: Rice cultivation faces contamination from toxic metals like arsenic and cadmium. Researchers pro...- India’s fertiliser subsidy model is broken; direct income support is the only way forward: Ashok GulatiIndia’s fertiliser subsidy regime is facing scrutiny; rising global fertiliser and energy prices and rising fiscal pressures expose its ine...
- Trump tariffs axed and the 150-day factor: 3 sectors, 15 stocks where real business was hit by tariffs; now the noise may increaseGiven that the US stock market reacted positively to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Trump’s tariffs, there is a high...
- From Fordow to Faridabad: How one nuclear bombing could cause a Chernobyl-style fallout and contaminate India’s futureThe US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities may not spark a Chernobyl-style disaster, but experts warn of real risks closer to home espe...
- Home-grown feasts: How Goans once raised pigs & prepared them for festivalsToday, pigs are also disappearing from public sight. A few are still home-raised, but the government is promoting pig farms where rearing h...
- What the Punjab farmer wants is not what the Punjab farmer needsAgriculture in Punjab is struggling with several structural issues for which guaranteed MSP can't even be a temporary fix let alone a solut...
- Global study reveals link between burning sugarcanes & mysterious kidney diseaseBurning sugarcane and rice husks may be releasing a toxic substance that is causing a mysterious kidney disease among agricultural workers ...
- India fine-tuning proposal to supply fertilisers worth $55 million to Sri LankaLast week while speaking with a group of irrigation officials on the next harvesting season's requirements, Lankan President Gotabaya Rajap...
- These seed bankers are saving India’s native cropsFarmers, agri scientists and even former techies are pitching in to stop hardier and healthier indigenous varieties from disappearing
- India’s food politics and how it was capable of caste promotionIn India, food has always been a bone of contention, a political hot potato, a means to curry favour.
- Delhi’s air better this time as stubble burning falls about 40%"Around 1,000 different incidents of stubble burning have been detected through remote sensing, compared to 1,500 in the last season, indic...
- Tamil Nadu rivers in reverse gearSeawater incursion up to 20km upstream in parts of the Cauvery delta which includes Thanjavur, the rice bowl of TN is ruining soil fertilit...
- ICAR creates an all-time record in releasing new crop varietiesCreating an all time-record, India’s public sector agriculture research institutions led by the ICAR had released 310 new crop varieties du...
- UN strengthens norms on lead in infant formula, arsenic in riceCodex standards serve in many cases as a basis for national legislation and provide the food safety benchmarks for international food trade.
- Iranian team to arrive soon for inspecting basmati qualityIn a concerted bid to defuse the controversy over Basmati exports to Iran, the All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA) has extended an...
- AIREA invites Iranian organisations over Basmati export rowIn a concerted bid to defuse the controversy over Basmati exports to Iran, the All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA)has extended an ...
- Pau denies media reports on Heavy metal contamination of rice variety pusa 1121Agri-experts and scientists of Punjab Agricultural University has ruled out the contamination of rice variety PUSA 1121 by some heavy metal...
- Basmati exports to Iran may suffer on negative media reportsBasmati exporters are trying to fend off fresh threats to their business with Iran.
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