India

Learning By Doing Helps Indian Agriculture Thrive

Rajaram MadhavanMay 10, 2018

Farmers must educate each other: That’s the best way we can learn to thrive, adopting the new technologies and sustainable practices that both conserve resource...

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Golden Rice Approval Needed to Produce a Life-Changing Staple Food

V. RavichandranSeptember 7, 2017

Their eyes tell their sad stories as ghostly white irises give way to vacant stares. We can look at them but they can’t look back at us. They’ve gone blind beca...

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India Will Benefit from Commercialization of GM Mustard

Pavitar Pal Singh PangliJuly 20, 2017

India has just taken a significant step forward with the tiny mustard seed. This new opportunity could deliver a major benefit to me and other Indian farmers...

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GM Crops Support Sustainable Farming in India

Sudhindra KulkarniNovember 3, 2016

The cultivation of genetically modified mustard remains just out of reach for India. Our government has indicated that although it wants to push ahead with GM m...

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Video: Farming First interview with GFN member Balwinder Singh Kang from India

Global Farmer NetworkAugust 12, 2016

“You can’t cook a cuisine with just one ingredient,” Indian farmer Balwinder Singh Kang tells Farming First TV. Farming, he explains is the same. “I don’t say y...

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International Year of the Pulses – An Important Crop for India and the World

V. RavichandranJune 16, 2016

Pulses are a very important crop for India. They are an important source of protein, grow quickly, generate good profits for farmers, and contribute to agricul...

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Is the door opening more in China for GMOs, and other news items…

Global Farmer NetworkFebruary 5, 2016

It seems apparent that the ChemChina / Syngenta deal should be a jump starter for more use of biotechnology in the world's most populous nation. Time...

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Wheat and Rice and Food Security

Ross KorvesMarch 26, 2015

Rice and wheat are food staples for most of the world and remain critical for food security, even though most of the public policy issues in agricultural trade ...

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Commodity Subsidies in Developing Countries

Ross KorvesMarch 12, 2015

As talk increases about restarting the Doha Round of WTO trade policy negotiations, more analyses about subsidies in developing countries are being released. A...

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India’s Decision to Allow GM Crop Field Trials is a Turning Point for a Second Green Revolution

V. RavichandranDecember 4, 2014

As a farmer in India, I am hopeful my country has reached a turning point and will finally embrace 21st-century farming, setting the stage for a second Green Re...

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Trade

Farmer’s Caught Between Unenforced Trade Agreements and Political Gamemanship

A New Day Dawning for the U.S. and “Land of the Rising Sun”

Broadband Access Vital for Rural America and the Economy

Technology

Let the Farmer Have a Voice

Live Video: The Future of Farming – October 14; 11:00 AM CST

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