The Punjab Agriculture Department has launched a comprehensive campaign to promote early cotton sowing from February 15 to ...

Chandigarh: Even as the area under cotton in Punjab shrank to only 1 lakh hectares in 2024, the state govt on Tuesday said efforts would be made to re.

The global food production industry is expected to undergo a significant transformation as a result of the pervasive use of GMOs, according to certain predictions. Genetically modified organisms offer ...

In this important study, Li and others identified cell membrane receptors for juvenile hormone (JH), a terpenoid hormone in insects that regulates their development and reproduction. While ...

That prompted the ministry to send entomologists to the affected areas to inspect the damage and identify the caterpillars. The ministry yesterday identified the culprits as army worms, bollworms and ...

The most frequently used outside gene is derived from bacteria called Bacillus thuringiensis, commonly called Bt, which makes cotton crops produce a chemical that kills bollworms. Agricultural ...