Large AI firms hoovering maximum funding, not enough for smaller startups: Y Combinator’s Ankit GuptaAnkit Gupta spoke to ET ahead of the accelerator’s Startup School event in Bengaluru on April 18 — the first in India. In order to tap aspi...
13 Apr, 2026, 11.25 AM IST
India has adequate seed stock available amid the Israel-Iran war, says govt officialIndia assures ample seed availability for the upcoming sowing season. This comes as global supply chains face disruptions. The nation boast...
01 Apr, 2026, 03.59 PM IST
India emerges as key player in growth and innovation, global vegetable seeds market thrives: S&P GCIThe global vegetable seeds market, valued at around USD 8 billion in 2022, is expanding due to rising demand for diverse vegetable varietie...
28 Mar, 2024, 09.49 AM IST
Kaveri Seeds becomes world’s first seed producer to have over a lakh acres in productionThe bulk of the newly acquired seed production area is dedicated to the non-cotton sector and mostly towards high-margin hybrid rice, maize...
26 Feb, 2021, 10.47 AM IST
Hybrid rice: Corteva slowly making inroads into Bihar, Jharkhand; trains 90K woman farmersRural women were growing inbred rice, a self-pollinated home-grown rice, in a traditional way. Now, they are trained to grow hybrid seeds e...
05 Nov, 2020, 03.49 PM IST
Kaveri Seeds to adopt GMS technology for hybrid cotton seedsNearly a fourth of their hybrid cotton seeds production of Kaveri next year would be through GMS technology and entire hybrid cotton seeds ...
15 Oct, 2019, 11.18 AM IST
Hybrid seed prices cut by 10 per cent for 2017-18 kharif seasonThe decision in this regard was taken at a meeting called by Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh here today to reduce voluntarily ...
16 Jun, 2017, 08.58 PM IST
Hybrid seed makers to ramp up R&D spend on new hybridsThey also pin hopes on increasing investments by the government into the state-owned agricultural research institutes like ICAR to come up ...
17 Jun, 2016, 05.11 PM IST
Freed from Monsanto's patent rights, private seed companies consider production of non-hybrid Bt cotton seedsIndia’s private seed companies are for the first time considering production of non-hybrid Bt cotton seeds, seeking to benefit from the gov...
31 Mar, 2016, 10.15 AM IST
Royalty Payments: Indian seed makers to take on MonsantoIndian hybrid seed producers are once again preparing to take on the global hybrid seed giant Monsanto on royalty payments for BT cotton te...
14 Oct, 2015, 10.25 AM IST
Hybrid seed companies want Mahyco Monsanto Biotech to return excess royaltiesA group of hybrid seed makers has also obtained legal advice to move higher courts against Mahyco Monsanto if it refuses to downwardly revi...
13 Aug, 2015, 10.42 AM IST
Indian hybrid seed makers eye Africa, East Asia marketsIndia currently exporting around Rs 500 crore of seeds, which is expected to double over the next couple of years, says the National Seed A...
05 Dec, 2014, 06.53 AM IST
Hybrid seed sector on way to see next wave of consolidationThe Indian hybrid seed market, with over 300 companies, has been growing at 15-20 per cent annually over the past several years and is proj...
18 Feb, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Bejo Sheetal sets up cold storage for boosting hybrid onion seed productionBejo Sheetal has recently invested in setting up an unique cold storage to boost the production of hybrid onion seeds.
30 Sep, 2013, 05.59 PM IST
- India's seed industry to grow by 53% by 2015: Assocham
The country's seed industry is expected to grow by 53 per cent to Rs 10,700 crore by 2015 on increased demand for high-yielding varieties t...
09 Dec, 2012, 12.04 PM IST
- NSC to market Monsanto's hybrid corn seeds
The company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) early this month with MIL to market and distribute 200 tonnes of hybrid corn seed th...
25 Oct, 2007, 06.10 PM IST
- Sericulture eyes seed gains via double hybrid route
Double hybrid cocoons could be the new segment of focus for the Indian bivoltine sericulture industry.
02 Aug, 2006, 02.55 AM IST