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The agriculture committee of the European Parliament rejected the Commissions draft law that would give member states the power to restrict or prohibit the use of EU-approved GM food or feed on their territory. It fears that arbitrary national bans could distort competition on the EUs ...

Indias premier agriculture research body Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has emphasized the importance of genetically engineered crops in bridging the demand and supply gap for foodgrains in the future. Vision 2050 which provides a strategic ...

More than a hundred farmers and agriculture stakeholders from the Cagayan Valley region of the Philippines affirmed their support for Bt eggplant during the Public Dialogue on Bt Eggplant ...

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences researcher Chuanxin Sun and team from different institutions developed rice plants producing higher yields and lesser greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. The results of their study were published in Nature. The new rice ...

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences researcher Chuanxin Sun and team from different institutions developed rice plants producing higher yields and lesser ...

As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with his Iranian counterpart in Vienna, at some point, he might want to make a reference to an event that just took place at the State Department in Washington on July 1 the announcement of the 2015 World Food Prize laureate. Known informally as the "Nobel Prize for…

Iranian Bt. Cotton was revealed during the opening ceremony of the 9th national and 1st international Biotechnology Congress of Iran ...

Dr. Marc Van Montagu the World Food Prize Laureate said this in a message sent to the organizers of the 9th Biotechnology Congress of Iran after receiving the prestigious award "Iran Agriculture Gold Medal" from H.E. Mahmood Hojjati the ...

On Feb. 22, 2015 a Filipino delegationvisited Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), under the supervision of Dr. Mario Montejo, the secretary of Science and technology of The Philippines. Dr Amellia Guevara, the undersecretary of research and development of the department ...

The worlds foremost leaders in food and agriculture, including academic, business, government and NGO leaders, and farmers themselves, will weigh in on this critical question as we culminate the Norman Borlaug Centennial Year and look ahead to the next 100 years and the future of ...