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

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...

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.

What was once an arid land, now wears a bright orange hue. From Punjab''s belt bordering Rajasthan Abohar in Ferozepur, Muktsar and Bhatinda...

For the first time, Valley''s purple swathes of centuries-old saffron fields found a place in Kashmir''s tourism map when a state-sponsored...

It pays to go Dutch. Ask Rasila Kothari, 52, who took to commercial cultivation of Dutch roses in Chandwe village, near Ranchi in Jharkhand.

Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture.

Around this time of the year, bright yellow flowers carpet the fields in scores of villages in Bihar's Vaishali district.

GUAVA, called the poor man''s apple, is the sixth most cultivated fruit in India. But the wilt disease has stagnated its yield over the years....

After Amritsar successfully began cultivating early crops of vegetables using tunnel technology a few years ago, Jalandhar, too, has decided to follow suit....

This rain-shadow village in Kerala''s Palakkad district made history when it forced soft drink giant Coca Cola to cork its bottling plant for excessive exploitation of ground water....

The total area under rice cultivation in Assam, which registered a bumper record production of 40.7 lakh metric tonnes of rice...

Slowdown, 26/11 terror attacks and erratic excise duty structure are taking a toll on Maharashtra''s fledgling wine industry.

At Ratu village in Ranchi district, farmers use buckets to pull water from wells to irrigate their fields. Repeating the work in...

Asia''s largest tulip garden, which could also become the world''s largest, is feeling the heat of global warming and the changing weather pattern of the Valley.

When he would come home from his modest half-acre farm after sundown, Ramesh Pradhan wouldn''t go near his children and wife until he had bathed and changed his clothes.

Precision farming practice is scaling new heights in Punjab with net house farming of vegetables picking up not only amongst...

Across the Malihabad town of Uttar Pradesh, growers are joyously looking at their blooming trees. This year has seen a record flowering and the blooms are so far not even infested with pests.

When scientists of Sher-e- Kashmir Agricultural University of Agriculture Science and Technology developed short duration wheat and maize...

Patiasa village in Muzaffarpur district is a hive of activity where Anita Kumari keeps as busy as a bee as she spearheads a revolution of sorts.

Farmers want to return to wheat-paddy cycle as Punjab''s ambitious bid to usher in a citrus revolution has come a cropper....