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A relatively small swarm of crop-eating locusts has arrived in Gujarat’s Bhuj from Somalia via Pakistan, Union agriculture ministry’s Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) said on Wednesday and added authorities were trying to prevent to it from moving to Rajasthan and other surround...

Several experts underscored the ill effects of using chemicals excessively in agriculture and stressed on ecologically sound alternatives while backing a recent government draft order to prohibit a bunch of pesticides.Civil society members, citing risks, threats and damage from 2...

Microplastics (MPs), i.e., tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length, can now be found throughout the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems, and even in our seafood and salt. As MPs have become ubiquitous, scientists have become concerned about the transfer of MPs fro...

Many uncertainties remain around the scale of the impact of the coronavirus crisis and the economic recovery. Nonetheless the food supply chain has proven resilient throughout the crisis. With lockdown measures being progressively lifted all over Europe, demand in particular for ...

Three dozen United Nations human rights experts recently called on wealthy countries to end the “deplorable” practice of exporting banned toxic chemicals and pesticides to poorer nations that lack “the capacity to control the risks”.A statement issued by UN special rapporteur on ...

The government is planning or restrict use of?glyphosate?, a popular herbicide used to control weeds in tea plantations – a proposal that has upset industry.The agriculture ministry, in a draft notification, has restricted the use of glyphosate only through Pest Control Operators...

Agriculture remains a central pillar of the Indian economy. The sector serves the food consumption needs of the whole country, while also placing among the top exporters of agricultural produce in the world. The sector has been facing its share of challenges in recent years, but ...

In recent years, China's grape planting area and production output have continued to grow. Up to end of 2016, China's total grape planting area reached 809,600 hectares which is only next to Spain, ranking second in the world while production output reached 13.745 million tons, r...

A 7,000-year-old crop variety discovered in China has been turned into commercial crop that can be planted in desert, which has the potential to help solve food crisis in regions and countries with a dry climate.?Dry rice, also known as upland rice, has attracted attention of som...

The global upsurge of locusts is on the brink of becoming a plague, aided by unusually favourable weather for three years and the international community’s failure to curb their growth.?Swarms of locusts took Delhi and the National Capital Region by suprise on June 27, 2020, the ...