In early April this year, when boro (summer) paddy covering a record 3.25 lakh hectares was just beginning to flower....

Always straddled with overflowing stocks, 'the Granary of India'' is now all set to have huge grainhouses. Of the total capacity of 127 lakh MT storage space to be created in the country, 71.25 lakh MT will come up in Punjab alone....

A team from the Forest Research Institute (FRI), the country''s premier forest research organisation, will soon travel to Cambodia, to save one of the major attractions of that country.

Rain is something tribals living in the cold deserts of Spiti Himachal''s fascinating mountainous region have seldom experienced.

With no funds coming under the Intensive Cotton Development Programme and a Centre-state blame-game on in full swing, cotton farmers in Punjab are again left on their own to struggle against their fate and pests

While North India is reeling under heavy rainfall, for the state''s farmers it has brought cheer

Forget the French wine, you can soon have a taste of our very own Punjabi wine.

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to step up its production of spices in the current financial year.

Stop indiscriminate use of pesticide on basmati, antibiotics on bees: Exporters to farmers, beekeepers

As rubber trees replace coconut plantations and labour becomes scarce in Kerala, neighbouring states, particularly Tamil Nadu, look set to reap benefits of the crop better

Uttarakhand farmers strike gold by cultivating amaranth a red cereal crop rich in vitamins

Ganesh Jadhav, like many other farmers at Vavna and Sonari villages in drought-prone Marathwada''s Phulambri tehsil.

Poultry farmers in the remote hills of Manipur have found two new birds Australian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and turkey.

With the help of technology and a Taiwanese variety of seed, Punjab''s maiden attempt at commercial cultivation of papaya is bearing fruit.

Ladsavangi village in Marathwada''s Aurangabad district has always faced a severe water scarcity, and even clashes over water, for many years.

To take the markets to farmers who now have to reach out to the buyers themselves as one of its key targets

At Kharar in Punjab, a hi-tech greenhouse covering an acre has the capacity to produce up to 35 lakh whole-root seedlings of fruits and vegetables. An Israeli agriculture specialist and a Delhi-based entrepreneur are behind it

According to experts, his produce is effective in gastrointestinal problems and tests show rich curcumin content. Besides, it gives him far higher returns than traditional paddy-wheat crop

Fruit production in Jammu and Kashmir has touched 20 lakh metric tonnes this season an all time high thanks to bumper apple crop.

Jaggery in flavours of strawberry, mango, others has got the markets smiling...

Finally, there''s hope for the shrinking saffron fields of 226 hamlets in Pampore along the Srinagar-Jammu National highway close to the summer capital.

With three dams, five ponds and thousands of trees, Simon Oraon has changed lives in six Chhotanagpur villages

Growing silently since early 1980s, small gardens have now come to contribute over 20 per cent to the total tea output of Assam

Small farmers badly hit though overall rice output won''t diminish owing to bumper crop in major growing areas.

Orchards in hill state major consumers of vermicompost made in Punjab, a state which still banks on chemicals.

BAMU in Aurangabad would have notched a top slot.

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will now prepare a list of do''s and don''ts for farmers.

Unprecedented prices to ensure Punjab farmers junk paddy, embrace cotton in coming season

Pineapple farmers are in expansion mode in Kerala.

India needs to prepare itself in advance as acute foodgrain scarcity is likely by 2020.

The Bt gene gave cotton farmers freedom from bollworm. Now the weedicide-resistant gene is likely to relieve them of weeds as well.

Globetrotting farmers, NRIs come together in Punjab to sell exotic and high-value vegetables in domestic and offshore markets.

While the state agriculture department introduced oil palm cultivation in 2001, Mamit rather woke up a little late.

With a negative farm growth in 2009-10, will Punjab meet the 11th Five Year Plan''s projection of 2.4 pc.

With American cotton dominating India''s white fields for long, agriculturists are now set to cultivate desi varieties.

No freight subsidy yet for transporting crop to other states.

Twenty-eight villages in Maharashtra, 21 of them in Vidarbha, have worked their way to build, operate and own minor irrigation projects.

Maoists in Orissa tonight extended by 48 hours the government''s deadline for meeting their demands to secure the release of Malkangiri Collector.

A lone farmer rids a vast 200 acres of farm land of all pests with the use of ancient Indian science of Ayurveda.

Grown as a wild bush in Ladakh, seabuck thorn is slowly bringing prosperity in the mountainous region.

Gold medalist sets up farmers'' club in Muzaffarpur, motivates villagers to cultivate land they had left untouched for fear of Maoists.

Even as India and Pakistan deliberate on a 'corridor'' for Sikh pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara.

SC: 'Bring in more transparency, open CVC to non civil servants too''.

Mango growers of Marathwada region fear more than 50 per cent losses this season.

Aeroponics reportedly ensures five to six times more production of potato minitubers as compared to traditional tissue culture system; the institute has started a commercial unit in Modipuram, UP.

Group farming: Beginning with a sheep breeding project, a self-help group of 15 women at a small village in Aurangabad have expanded to grow vegetables, turmeric and ginger on around 10 acres of land.

Govt may concede to the EPFO proposal for an extra 1% interest rate hike on retirement savings.

Private-public business model aims to make saline water in south-west Punjab useful for fish farming, biogas, dairy farms and more.

Aurangabad''s Marathwada University shows how to grow roses in a hostile climate and earn money from it too.

Long winter, good snowfall makes climate favourable for a quality harvest this year.