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% ...

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 ...

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’ ...