ICAR is advancing conservation agriculture and climate-resilient wheat research, focusing on water-use efficiency, farmer incomes, and nutr...

Humans are exploring space for a new home. However, a radical idea suggests shrinking people to solve Earth's resource problems. Smaller hu...

Israel-Iran war: Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf suggested expanding maritime blockades from the Strait of Hormuz to th...

Born in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu on August 7, 1925, Swaminathan played a significant role in changing the trajectory of the agriculture sec...

Geneticist MS Swaminathan who led India’s push in the 1960s to become grain surplus, promoting the use of hybrid varieties and chemical fer...

Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, the architect of India's Green Revolution, played a crucial role in transforming the country's food produc...

MS Swaminathan, known as the father of India's green revolution, has passed away at the age of 98. Swaminathan played a key role in develop...

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...

The veteran expressed his concerns about rising temperature trends and gave suggestions for securing the country's food security with a ser...

In 1960s, Green Revolution had allowed India to overcome food deficit by raising foodgrains production by using high yielding varieties of ...

ICAR said that from last few years scientists have been developing seeds that are drought and climate resilient to meet these challenges.

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.

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.

Acute shortage of agri-scientists specialising in wheat breeding may dampen the country’s agricultural growth amid growing threat of climat...