The G B Pant University of Agriculture at Pantnagar, along with some other premier institutions...

Farmers growing cotton have reason to cheer. They will not have to worry about mealybugs which severely damage the crop even before flowering.

When Ghulam Ahmad Khan, a part time farmer, decided to turn his paddy field into a strawberry plantation rather than the customary apple orchard.

Come litchi season this summer, the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would be ready with the customary packets of the fruit...

Tomato and capsicum crops grown in the mid-hills of the state are increasingly being lost to collar rot and leaf blight diseases.

The National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, is working to develop transgenic varieties of mangoes and bananas...

The strawberry crop grown over hundreds of acres in Jammu is threatened by widespread fungal attacks.

Multiplicity of authorities with almost no coordination, absence of a symbiotic relation among beneficiaries, NGOs and private market players...

The Himachal apples will not taste as they used to do in the best days of their harvests.

They can be seen vying for attention in the local markets, but consumers eye them warily with sellers barely being able to persuade them to change their preference.

Soaring potato prices have returned to haunt farmers and average consumers this summer again.

Controlling this pest is one of the biggest challenges faced by the agriculture scientists of the country for the past four years. Its impact on crops, mainly cotton, has been devastating...

For a state that is battling labour shortage and has little water for irrigation, sowing paddy without flooding the fields (the method is called puddling) will surely prove to be a blessing.

With increasing awareness of healthy diets and nutritional security gaining as much focus as food security, Indian researchers are now growing...

It was not the Congress that had defeated the BJP in the 1998 Assembly elections in four states, it was the onion. The vegetable remains as politically potent.

The UPA government''s much-hyped National Food Security Mission launched in 2007 to boost the productivity of rice....

After slipping into the league of least-growing states in agriculture, Punjab has made a turnaround in the last two years....

More than 500 women labourers of Gumla district in Jharkhand no longer migrate when there is no work in farms. Instead, they flock to nearby markets to sell the poultry they rear....

As urbanisation feasts on Dehradun''s famed rice, its cultivation moves out of the traditional zones of Majra and Niranjanpur to elsewhere in Uttarakhand. The government, too, admits as much in the Assembly....

The long dry spell this monsoon has forced farmers to alter their crop pattern and switch over to the kharif cotton crop in several parts of Gujarat....

Poor production of the fruit in Kashmir, Himachal has jacked up prices in Pune markets to a minimum retail price of Rs 120 per kg....

With major parts of cane belt being located in the 47 drought-hit districts of the state, mill owners are bracing up for an acute cane shortage. Sugar price, consequently, is set to head northwards....

With large parts of the country being declared drought-hit, the need for a safeguard against vagaries of nature is being felt like never before.

Assurances from the Centre has failed to dispel the mounting concerns of Kerala home to lush expanses of coconut, cardamom...

The delayed and weak monsoon hasn''t ushered in much hope. Ranjani Raghavan visits Sangmaner in Nashik and Sinnar in Ahmednagar only...

An Oriya meal isn''t complete without dal, either arhar (lentil) or moong (green gram), in liberal quantity.

A late burst of rains in Madhya Pradesh has given soybean farmers a reason to smile after a long dry period that was...

The pungent aroma of pepper no longer floats in Wayanad''s Pulpally village once the largest producer of the famous...

The Saurashtra Kutch region, popularly known as India''s groundnut bowl, is threatening to fall off the agricultural map.

Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful "invasive weeds" which made their...

With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...

In a year characterised by the aftershocks of economic slow down hitting almost every sector, apple orchard owners in Himachal Pradesh still have reason to smile.

After championing a number of innovations in plant breeding and crop research, the Anand Agricultural University (AAU) in Gujarat...

In a minor revolution in the agrarian history of the Kashmir Valley, the farmers in the region harvested the legendary Basmati rice for the first time this autumn.

While the government is looking to offset the losses in Kharif production on account of the drought with an increase in productivity levels and area...

With elections in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana around the corner here''s a look at how the prominent political parties in the states are wooing the powerful farmer lobby.

Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government...

The sudden burst of rain across Uttar Pradesh may have brought respite from the humid weather, but for the farmers across the state this has been a double blow.

Amid arguments for and against introducing genetically modified (GM) crops in India, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee....

The gentle mountain slopes in this fascinatingly beautiful place at once catch the attention not merely for their idyllic setting and extremely hospitable people....

Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....

While other states are giving out distress signals of foodgrain scarcity, triggered by drought and flood fury, Punjab is not only looking at a good harvest but also hoping to gain from this adversity....

Farmers of Mankulam village panchayat in Kerala''s Idukki district are nursing their soil to reverse the damage done to it over the years.

Two droughts wiping out 50 per cent of the rabi crop, the apple produce reduced to half of its usual quantity, the unusual rise in temperature...

Banana grower Adhinath Barve of Junnar tehsil in Pune district is expecting to double his exports when he begins harvesting his three-acre plantation in February next year.

It prided itself for being the land of orchards. This year, however, many in Karnikhera village in the border district of Ferozepur in Punjab...

At first glance, the lush green fields barely convince that this is one of the dry regions of Andhra Pradesh.

Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge...

Since the seeds were first sown in their lands four years ago, farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district have been patiently waiting each season for wonders to happen.

She is possibly the most expensive baby in the country today and certainly among the most pampered.