Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India Department of Life Sciences, SGRR Institute of Technology and Science, Dehradun, India School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India Akal School of Biotechnology, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh 173101, India Department of Plant Protection, Co...

Agriculture is the backbone of India’s economy as two-third of the population live in rural areas and directly or indirectly depend on agriculture for their livelihood. India’s food production has improved significantly during the last three decades due to all-round efforts but Indian agriculture is still facing a multitude of problems to maximize productivity to feed the continuously increasin...

Sajad Majeed Zargar1*, Nancy Gupta2, Rakeeb A Mir3, Vandna Rai4 1Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Division of Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, J&K, India 2School Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu, Chatha, Jammu, J&K, India 3School of Bio resources & Biotechnology, B...

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Along with greatly shaking up the confidence in producers and distributors, the problems, such as BSE and avian influenza, which are threatening the safety of agricultural products occurring one after another, have suddenly increased our the awareness of “food safety” as consumers. On the other hand, even though Japanese agriculture is facing internal and external problems such as the depressio...

Farmers' perception of the environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology diffusion and factors determining such awareness were examined using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Results reveal that farmers are well aware of the adverse environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology, although their awareness remains confined within visi...

Although agricultural biotechnology has been a seminal reference point in risk perception studies, public awareness of their exposure to risk deriving from this new technology has been minimal at best. However, recent events indicate there may be growing public concern as new variations of this technology appear. Understanding what drives perceptions of benefits from the third generation of the...

In earlier debates on economic development, the agricultural sector’s role was somewhat controversial. While dualistic models highlighted the importance of agriculture, the mainstream literature placed a greater emphasis on the creation of a modern industrial sector. Soon agriculture disappeared from the mainstream development literature to re-emerge recently with a variety of multiple-sector g...

The AGRIS Network is an international initiative based on a collaborative network of institutions, whose aim is to promote free access to information on science and technology in agriculture and related subjects. The paper illustrates how the Open Access (OA) and the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) models can be used within the AGRIS Network as a means of solving the problems of dissemination and...

Investigating the Performance of Agricultural Technology Units in Mazandaran Science and Park, (Case Study: Located The Sari’s Incubator)