It is said to surpass all qualities of basmati except the length of the latter. But surprisingly, Kalanamak, a fragrant variety of rice and named thus as its husk is black, isn''t popular among farmers....

Just when Kashmir''s walnut kernel had begun doing brisk business in the international markets, recession hit and its rates tumbled, resulting in heavy losses to the growers, traders and exporters alike...

Nearly 10,000 farmers in Bundelkhand, Azamgarh and Mau in UP growing tulsi for international markets

The fruit was introduced in Kashmir in 1987 to assess its climatic adaptability

How about repaying a loan in kind? This is exactly what a Kisan Bank set up in Dehradun intends to do...

Pin hopes on rainfall in February; besides rabi crop and fruit orchards, cash crops like peas, cabbage, potato, garlic and onion also damaged

Whenever Vidarbha''s farm crisis is debated, the blame is often thrust on the farmers themselves.

The exhaustive Dictionary of Indian Plant Gums, Resins, Dyes and Related Products by Dr M I H Farooqi is a unique effort...

Even as Punjab struggles to shrug off the tag of a state with the highest use of pesticides in the country, it is faced with another problem...

After more than a decade of hectic efforts and numerous trials, scientists at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture.

They slogged to make it to prestigious engineering colleges of the country. Only to return to the farms in their villages and try their hand at something.....

Scientists at Jammu and Kashmir''s agriculture university claim to have worked out the perfect script to make India one among world''s top walnut producers....

The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme has not found many takers ever though it was launched way back in 1998. A Jammu and Kashmir Government report has pointed out that till 2007-end, not more than 74,301 cards....

The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to fund farmers, especially those in the hills, to build polyhouses modern greenhouses, in other words...

Four farmer communities from different parts of the country were recently felicitated by the Government for their efforts at preserving...

Pune-Based entrepreneur Rajiv Devkar seems to have hit the jackpot in his quest to preserve mangoes without the use of cold storage facilities.

A warm winter, overflowing stocks and a rather bleak possibility of private purchase amid falling global prices, all''s not well with Punjab''s wheat crop this year.

An audit scrutiny by the Comptroller and Auditor General has indicted the J-K Government for neglecting the Agriculture and Allied sector...

Sitaram Yadav, a farmer based in Gohta village of Mau district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, gives a thumbs up to the flood-tolerant Swarna Sub-1 rice variety.

Satnam Singh Mann and his group of dairy farmers are easily fielding a volley of questions from management students at Punjab Agricultural University.

The current spell of rainfall and snow in the upper and middle hills of Himachal Pradesh may translate into some respite for farmers and orchardists...

Call it the paradox of timing clear skies when the farmers looked up for rains and it poured when they wanted the sun....

Hatal, a small village in the Tiyuni area of Uttarakhand, has witnessed a quiet revolution over the last decade....

Incessant rains in Kashmir have resulted in a dip in day temperatures something which will not augur well for fruit trees.

For the past year and a half, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Y S Matta is doing organic farming on his 30 acres of land in Kalomajra village....

It''s no longer serving its purpose only in the household kitchen. High-quality potato produced in the lower region of Himachal Pradesh....

In an attempt to combat the problem of shrinking farm labour availability, the worse of which is felt during the paddy season...

If the Congress-led government returns to power, it will help resume exports of wheat and rice and continue existing policies but if it needs the support of its Leftist allies....

Along with experiencing a bumper wheat crop this season, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are also forced to sell their produce for as low as Rs 910 per quintal...

Even though the weather and soil conditions here can seldom be compared, the yield seems to have transcended those boundaries.

Even as the jury is still out on whether genetically modified crops affect biodiversity and lack nutritive value, two districts of Gujarat...

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat, which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

Direct Seeded Rice, on which successful experiments were carried out in UP last season, is ready for large-scale cultivation

While a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield, all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot.

While varieties like Rajapuri haven''t made it to the Mumbai markets at all, others like Badami and Lalbaug have been hit by a peculiar lack of demand

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.

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....