This might seem an absurd claim to make when everyone has been talking of nothing but the crisis in agriculture, and when the news coming out of India s farms has to do with stagnant yields, shortage of water, unremunerative prices, declining foodgrain availability per head and suicides by farmers. This might seem an absurd claim to make when everyone has been talking of nothing but the crisis in agriculture, and when the news coming out of India s farms has to do with stagnant yields,...

But a breakthrough is eluding a two-billion-dollar biotechnology industry struggling to replicate the success of BT cotton, which helped turn India into a net cotton exporter from a net importer in four years. Neither Narayanan nor Patell was willing to hazard a guess as to when the breakthrough will come, even as the biotech industry faces calls to help reverse a decline in food production that forced the country of 1.1 billion people to import wheat last year for the first time in six...

You have to experiment with new products or suffer with commodity prices. Early 2007 finds cotton spinners uncharacteristically concise with their commentary, which may reflect some uncertainty about where the business is headed. All markets are at risk from imports, said an industry observer. In the West, for the second consecutive year, California growers intend to plant less area to upland cotton, with the shift this year to ELS cotton and wheat. The company has been fighting a marathon...

While a hurricane in the Gulf throws this whole market sector into a screaming buy, the tendency for a Gulf storm this early in the season is very low, especially with the currently below average water temperatures indicating a later than normal threat to that area. While a hurricane in the Gulf throws this whole market sector into a screaming buy, the tendency for a Gulf storm this early in the season is very low, especially with the currently below average water temperatures indicating a...

According to the site, from 2003 through 2005, Phillips County agricultural cotton producers received more than $47 million in subsidies. Taxpayers can now familiarize themselves with the fact that Phillips County ranks fourth in the state for cotton subsidies. Phillips County ranks fourth in farm subsidies for cotton in the state. County ranks fourth in cotton subsidies. New farm mandates makes the information available to the public on the Internet. Phillips County also is a top-ranked...