The rising prices of daily essentials like tomatoes, ginger, and tur dal can be attributed to newer plant viruses that are resistant to mos...

Two years back, the state government had launched its flagship 'Godhan Nyay Yojana', under which it had started buying cow dung from cattle...

Thirty-five per cent of the shares in the Indian Pesticides IPO are reserved for retail investors. They can apply in a lot size of 50 share...

The retail quota for the IPO has been reserved at 35 per cent. The issue would close on Friday, June 25.

If the bill that was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on March 23, 2020, to replace The Insecticides Act, 1968, is passed in the current form,...

An agro-chemicals industry body has opposed penal provisions in the new Pesticides Management Bill, saying these do not differentiate betwe...

The new law will be in line with the international norms being practised by global leaders.

In combination with Integrated Pest Management and Plasticulture techniques, agrochemicals play a critical role by providing pre and post h...

Malda and adjoining districts in West Bengal form one of the largest mango yielding regions of the country producing over 5 lakh tonnes.

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

CPM has decided to intervene in the vegetable market by opening 1,000 stalls across the state to sell organic vegetables during Onam festiv...

The exporters will advice them to adopt good agriculture practice by controlling the pesticide residues or face rejection by exporters.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has decided to oppose the Pesticides Management Bill, 2008, on the ground that that certain clauses had b...

On July 1, Delhi HC dismissed an appeal by Syngenta India Ltd, subsidiary of the $11.6 bn Swiss agrochemical, challenging Union agriculture...

West Bengal government, which is keen to spread organic cultivation, has resolved to set up one bio-village in each of the 341 blocks in th...

The West Bengal government, which is keen to spread organic cultivation, has resolved to set up one bio-village in each of the 341 blocks i...

Our reader says pesticide residues in underground water must be reduced rather than blaming Pepsi.