WTO fish sops pact draft doesn’t include India’s proposals, cuts exemption from 25 to 7 years. In a setback for India, the draft agreement on fisheries subsidies at the World Trade Organization (WTO) did not include New Delhi’s plans to end non-specific fuel subsidies or...
Noida-based agritech company Leads Connect Services launched a pilot project called ‘SIGMAA’ with the help of 200 farmers in two villages in the Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. If the government is interested, the company plans to expand the project to the...
Monsoon-2022 will break the jinx over Karnataka and extend its reach to West Coast. The monsoon has not moved on from Karwar, Chickamagaluru, Bengaluru, and Dharmapuri, where it was a week ago, and has resulted in a 26% rainfall deficit over parts of the South Peninsula since arriving...
Organic farming is a special chapter in school textbooks for grades 9 through 12. In order to popularise organic and natural farming among the general public, the Gujarat government has taken a novel approach to raising awareness of chemical-free farming practices among students, parents...
Around 430 civil society from 69 countries urged the UN to cut ties with the pesticide industry. Around 430 civil society and indigenous peoples’ groups from 69 countries have petitioned the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to cut ties with the pesticide...
