A recent investigation reveals that child exploitation and forced labor are being used to pick cotton on dozens of farms in ...

India will launch a six-year programme to boost the output of pulse crops by taking measures including directing state ...

Cotton, a major commercial crop in India, comprises approximately 23 per cent of global cotton production. It supports the livelihoods of about 60 lakh cotton farmers and 4-5 crore people involved ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government presented an annual budget to Parliament on Saturday focused on spurring ...

President Trump’s focus on China as a serious competitor and threat to national security provides opportunities for India to ...

is designed to expedite field-level sustainability and climate resilience efforts in cotton-growing regions, starting with communities in India. Additionally, the organisation is involved in the ...

The Indian cotton crop for the 2024-25 season is expected to be bigger than the initial estimates on higher yields in the key growing regions of central and southern parts of the country.

In its revised estimate, the Cotton Corporation of India has projected that production will touch 337 lakh bales, better than the previous year’s level, but still below the 352 lakh bales of ...

Monsanto ’s patents on two cotton variants, Bollgard and Bollgard II, were found to be unenforceable under India’s Patents Act. The American biotechnology giant has been locked in a three-year ...

How did Indian cotton cloth influence British industrialisation? I use historical textual and material evidence to show that the quest for improvement in cloth quality, to match that of the competitor ...