Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for farmers in India. However, excessive use of chemical fertilisers and ...

To achieve the European Green Deal's goal of 25% organic agriculture by 2030, researchers argue that new genomic techniques (NGTs) should be allowed without pre-market authorization in organic as well ...

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby ...

Don’t let the marketing fool you; organic is no longer just those family farms and farmers, as a new study in Nature reports. “Championing this transition in the 1970s, former US Secretary of ...

Organic food sales in the U.S. doubled over the last decade, but organic farming hasn’t kept pace. That may change as farmers partner with brands. Mexican and Guatemalan workers harvest ...

Conventional agriculture uses synthetic chemicals to boost plant growth and control weeds, genetic engineering to improve yields/quality and antibiotics to treat livestock. Organic agriculture ...

he said adding that organic farming in the past was successful because farmers in those days had animal components. He even recommends use of safe chemicals if extreme situations warrant it.

It’s easy to forget in this meltdown, but the economic turmoil that has brought the South Asian nation to this point was precipitated by its disastrous shift to organic farming—posing new ...