Flood-tolerant rice will help Indian farmers

Scientists have identified a genethat allows rice plants to survive floods; a development that could help poor farmers especially in India who are having atough time braving floods.Most rice plants......

Farmers may get Green Revolution man

Professor M S Swaminathan, the country's most renowned agricultural scientist, may be appointed chairman of the National Commission on Farmers.Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has......

PM attacks Congress on loan waiver promises, calls them lollipops

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the Congress of misleading farmers on loan waiver promises, calling them lollipops. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the crowds in......

Modi's day out in Manila

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a packed schedule in Manila. The PM, who arrived in the Philippines on Sunday, is here to attend the ASEAN-India and the East Asia summits. On his second day of......

Global warming to hit rice production hard

The heat is on and will take a heavy toll on your rice bowl in the coming years. The reason: global warming. Global warming, which will increase the temperatures up to 4.5 degree celsius by the end......

Go for hybrid rice, feed the world

Faced with a huge food shortage and rising prices, the world has to tackle the situation with better planning. Concerned over the issue, a multi-year assessment of international agricultural......

'Feed the Future' is central to US foreign policy

With the number of people suffering from hunger globally crossing the one billion mark, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that America's new policy "Feed the Future" is central to the......

Another Green Revolution or people will starve

Fund another Green Revolution-- or people will starve. That's the message from heads of several international farm research institutes galvanised by the food price crisis. Scientists who run three......