KOCHI: Asserting that the government would lend a helping hand to the plantation sector to tide over the crisis, Industries Minister P Rajeeve said it is considering a policy change to remove the 5% ...

In the absence of meaningful agrarian reform, the area (lateral) expansion of small farms is not feasible. The only possibility left is to seek increased returns through improved ‘land-augmenting’ ...

New research shows a cereal familiar today as birdseed was carried across Eurasia by ancient shepherds and herders laying the foundation, in combination with the new crops they encountered, of ...