Assessments reveal that this year''s crop susceptible to pest attack in March-April would be about 40 per cent less than last year''s

In six months, Haryana''s poultry business up by 10-15 pc as dry, parched south Haryana wakes up to high demand, higher returns

A Rs 9.5-cr ICAR project sanctioned to SKUAST aims at reviving the lucrative industry

In a year''s time, summer moong''s acreage has risen to one lakh hectares

Experts say that even if the weather turns unfavourable, the state may lose only 1 to 1.5 per cent of the crop and still be the highest wheat producing state this year

India stands tall in gloomy world scenario

Partha Chatterjee and Mukul Roy have submitted an audio CD containing the speech

New norms to bring in safety regulations at each link of the food chain

Embryo transfer technology is expected to improve cattle breed in Himachal and enhance its milk production

Alphonsos will not be seen in the market after mid-May. Their produce has anyway been very low and prices steep

Five years ago, the AP court had ordered a cut in prices of cottonseeds from Rs 1,600 to Rs 650 per bag. Other states had followed suit

In Gumla district''s rice belts, which remain barren for six months in a year, a social worker has introduced farmers to fruits and horticultural plants

While sowing of paddy will begin around June 10, cotton sowing started around April 15

A doctor in the Valley gave up a career in medicine to cultivate lavender. Eight years on, she has won a state award with many following in her footsteps

Controlled application of gamma rays on fruits and vegetables increases their shelf-life, reduces spoilage an answer to post-harvest storage problems

Despite knowing that its storage capacity was far less, the state government revised its wheat procurement target twice. Procurement shot up due to a populist measure of Rs 100 per quintal bonus

Kerala, Karnataka may have banned the popular insecticide, but experts warn that farmers may have only more hazardous and more expensive options to choose from

Giant Noor Jahans grow only on three trees left in the Katthiwara area of MP''s Alirajpur district

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to cultivate jatropha to boost farmers'' income and produce bio-diesel

Three anti-hail guns, part of a Rs 27-cr pilot project , could protect only those areas where they were installed. One gun covers between 80 and 100 hectares

Govt has little role to play as farmers move to cotton, sugarcane, maize, pulses. Paddy acreage set to fall by 1 lakh hectare

Early this year, the farmers had fetched more than Rs 1,200 for cardamom.

If successful, it would save paddy growers from depending on erratic monsoon and rapidly depleting ground water.

As Nitish takes a tough stand against MNCs planning to sell Bt maize after selling hybrid corn seeds, farmers of Bihar''s Kosi region are a confused lot

Acute shortage of agricultural labour in Punjab earlier forced farmers to use paddy transplanters.

Basmati acreage likely to be up again this year but it is the slender rice variety, sharbati, that is luring farmers in Punjab and Haryana more

ICAR''s Krishi Vigyan Kendras are helping farmers of Vidarbha region''s Gondia district turn lac cultivation into a profitable venture

Tea mosquito bug is the most serious pest of cashew plantation.

But low procurement, no publicity result in marginal benefits for tribals.

Pesticide residue, marketing bottlenecks likely to lead to a decline in exports.

Upper Assam''s Singpho tribe will soon enjoy the exclusive right for commercial production as well as cultural promotion of two traditional varieties of rice.

While the crop''s acreage this season is highest ever in the country, the yield will now depend on weather conditions.

With the monsoon arriving late in Maharashtra, agriculture experts advised farmers to go for soybean crop instead of moong and lentil.

Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, is for the past one year, trying to find a way to control the gall disease that has affected almost 50 per cent of the eucalyptus trees.

Even as monsoon is late by a month and less than normal, the state is hopeful of a record yield of Sali variety.

In Arunachal''s Lower Dibang Valley, the fruit slips into the hands of middlemen in the stage of flowering itself in the absence of market linkages and storage facilities.

With subsidy from govt, sugar factories have placed orders for harvesters from abroad.

Horticulture department has for the first time sown the crop on three farms, cooperative society procured 1,200 quintals of turmeric seeds from Maharashtra this season.

As the Coconut Development Board shifts its focus from Kerala to Assam, the state aspires to lead the country in commercial cultivation of coconuts.

Kinnows a citrus fruit considered a half-brother of orange are set to be costlier this season with Punjab staring at a poor yield of the fruit.

At Farm Progress Show in the US, forecast of over 20 gene traits in corn, 20 years from now.

Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, is looking at partnering with farmers and absorbent cotton manufacturers to promote organic desi cotton as raw material

A community radio service at Resode taluka of Maharashtra''s Washim dist is disseminating information on latest farming technologies

Two consecutive years of drought in the state had hit kharif crops paddy, millet and oilseeds

The state was chosen for the India-UK study as it is most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change

With govt doling out lavish incentives, a total of 72 wineries came up in Maharashtra by 2008. Three years on, around 30 have shut shop with production exceeding demand

Besides, the solvent extraction technology is also not environment-friendly.

SKUAST experts teach basics of organic farming to more than 200 farmers, encourage them to take it up on a larger scale

Pearl spot fish or Karimeen, favoured by tourists and declared state fish by Kerala govtlast year, is facing extinction. Cage culture can help check the trend

The inspiration comes from Tripura, which is second only to Kerala in rubber production in the country.