The world’s first satellite-monitored, AI-driven certification system for organic cotton took to space on Tuesday. Launched by the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), the European Space ...

Rumors of a crisis in Indian cotton have been greatly exaggerated. There is no crisis in the cotton industry in India, just a misreading of circumstances over the course of the 2022/2023 growing ...

For India’s cotton farmers, cooperatives — not ... investigates ecological knowledge and technological change in agricultural systems spanning Cleveland urban gardens and Indian GM cotton fields.

Test fields using biochar outperformed traditional cotton fields by 15% in yield. ... The pilot project in India started in ...

In 2016, WWF, one of India's leading tiger conservationists, decided to place these cotton farmers, whose fields often border forests, the territory of the tigers, at the heart of its strategy to ...

In India's cotton fields, badly paid or even unpaid children can be found picking and processing the cotton that goes on to supply global textile chains. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; ...

Indian agricultural minister Sharad Pawar admitted in parliament on August 16 that there is a flourishing illegal market in genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds, strengthening allegations by the ...

Through India’s contract production system, which allows cotton suppliers to register up to 500 farmers as a single corporate entity, bioRe started sourcing and selling organic cotton regulated ...

Genetically modified (GM) Bt cotton produces its own insecticide. The seeds were introduced in India in 2002 and today account for 90% of all cotton planting in the country.

The Global Slavery Index 2013 ranked India, China (2.9 million) and Pakistan (2.1 million) as having the largest number of people living in modern slavery.

The currently fashionable belief that everything (well, almost) that is good and great emerged in ancient India and pathways to the future run through the distant and glorious past, extends beyond ...