Prolonged monsoon and high temperature led to delay in planting of the fruit saplings in Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani

While retail prices of milk in Maharashtra have been hiked thrice in less than a year, the state govt is struggling to keep dairy farmers in business

The potato seeds, said scientists, will reduce J-K''s dependence on other states.

As the clamour for a hike in cotton support price grows shriller, a study has found that cost of its production in backward regions like Vidarbha has gone up by 42 per cent

K R Jayan is leading a movement aimed at food security and environmental conservation. And at the centre of this revolution is the humble jackfruit

Central Institute for Cotton Research has come up with high-density plantation system for Maharashtra and MP

Farmers in Assam, who have traditionally remained content with a single crop per year, now have reasons to go for two or more crops beginning the current rabi season

The lower and mid hill belt of Himachal are giving up terrace farming to grow high-yielding and exotic cash crops in polyhouses

Decent rainfall, coupled with contract farming and govt policies, boosts wine production

Farmers told crop will be procured at the MSP from only those who register in advance

With several mills closing down and sugarcane crop unable to fetch good price, farmers of Champaran''s sugar belt have started cultivating turmeric

The air is cool and dry in the hills of Himachal Pradesh.

Meghalaya is not only the abode of the clouds but also home to one of the tastiest and best oranges in the country

With the average wholesale onion price crashing to Rs 3-4 per kg across the country, the growers in Maharashtra and elsewhere have got little or no returns

To explore markets elsewhere in the country and abroad for its saffron, basmati rice and rajmash among various other agricultural produce, the Jammu-Kashmir government is adopting organic farming in a systematic manner

Madhya Pradesh government says it is set to clock a 10 per cent farm growth this time thanks to both state and Central schemes, steps like bonus over and above the MSP, and its agriculture becoming resilient to the vagaries of nature

State accounts for nearly 40% of total area under certified organic farming in India.

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

As traders pass off Dasheharis, Langra and Gulab Khas of the state as those from UP and Bihar, the Orissa horticulture dept draws post-harvest management and intelligent marketing plans

With an alternative market in place, farmers in this Kerala village now risk growing vegetables they did not produce earlier and are reaping benefits

As govt works on a tie-up, Orissa farmers to directly sell their produce to a supermarket chain

Imported power tillers, mini-tractors to mechanise hill farming in Himachal Pradesh

40,000 commission agents on warpath in Punjab against direct pay to farmers.

Cites its agricultural marketing rules to deny direct payment to over 13 lakh farmers

Fighting odds of floods, small landholdings and depleting agricultural land, state plans to introduce high-yielding, submergence-tolerant paddy varieties, double-cropping

Fighting climate change, state''s new mantra is diversification plum, kiwi, cherry, apricot, peach, pomegranate and strawberry being grown in the upper hills while citrus fruits and mangoes are options for the lower hills

ARI has developed a high-yielding variety, to seek Centre''s permission to release it to farmers

Punjab''s Citrus Estates help small farmers earn big by providing latest machinery and technical expertise

BARC technology to considerably increase shelf life of the highly perishable fruit

Over 12 years after a devastating cyclone claimed its coconut forest, horticulture dept programme aims to make Orissa one of the top three states in terms of coconut productivity and area under plantation

Prices too low, middlemen eating up profits, say farmers; govt blames it on glut

World Bank-aided pilot idea uses GPS, cellphones and remote-sensing data to try and overcome problems of existing insurance schemes

30 bighas to be identified in each of the 126 Assembly constituencies; Rs 20 cr earmarked

MP hopes to procure 7.4 mn MT wheat this season, three times the target needed to meet its PDS requirement

From cotton and soyabean in rainfed conditions, farmers in Wardha district have taken a bold shift towards shade-net and poly-house farming, and are reaping benefits

Successful installation of a solar pumpset in Nitish Kumar''s village shows way to farmers to look for cost-effective irrigation

Crop loss figure already stands at Rs 200 cr

World Economic Forum has chosen the state for its New Agriculture Initiative

Struggling with a severe drought-like situation, Maharashtra has a group of smiling farmers who had built farm ponds for irrigation

With farm workers abandoning the climbing job, Coconut Development Board has launched a trained army of climbers, calling them 'friends of coconut tree''

Punjab''s fields, mills and godowns are brimming with 172 lakh tonnes of wheat, rice, paddy. The wheat harvest is set to cross a record 120 lakh tonnes. One-third of it, worth hundreds of crores, will be stored unscientifically

To be developed at an estimated cost of Rs 76 lakh in about 2,056 square metres of land, the greenhouse is expected to be completed by July this year.

Under an ICAR project, NRCM in Nagaland is working on increasing population of mithuns a milch animal referred to as the 'ship of the highland'' or 'cattle of the mountains'' through embryo transfer technology and has recently seen its first success

Having formed a help society to start group farming and bring down costs, farmers in Punjab''s Ferozepur villages now want to process and sell their farm produces

In Himachal Pradesh, Kangra alone has 30,000 farmers engaged in bee-keeping, producing 1,200 MT honey annually if unfavourable weather conditions don''t play spoilsport

The Centre has sanctioned a special irrigation scheme worth Rs 3,250 crore aimed to meet a new micro-irrigation target of 1,43,500 hectares in the Vidarbha region still coping with reports of farmer suicides

Indian researchers, along with those from 13 other countries have sequenced the genome of the tomato and its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium

Traditionally a hub of wheat and paddy crops, the state is now exporting baby corn to the UK and other European countries in a big way

Allocates Rs 30 cr for compensation Rs 2 lakh per family; but state-sponsored report of 3 universities that studied suicide-hit districts pegs the number of affected families at over 6,500