The honeybee population in Himachal Pradesh has come down drastically, thanks to a mite called varroa....

Assam is counting on boro rice to achieve the target of 46.7 lakh-metric tonnes that it has set for the crop this year.

For long, the mulberry silk produced in Jammu-Kashmir Valley was taken to faraway Western countries. As years passed by, silk looms here stopped spinning as fast...

Cautiously, but convincingly, farmers of Katewadi in Baramati district have embraced organic farming, bidding farewell to pesticides and chemical fertilisers for the sake of their own health and that of their crops.

With private exporters locating overseas customers for bhot jolokiya, Assam has for the first time gone for a systematic cultivation of one of world''s hottest chillies....

At a first-of-its-kind 'scientifically-managed'' orchard at Kotgarh''s Harmony Hall Orchard, associated with the legendary Samuel Evans Stokes, around 10,000 fresh plants have replaced ageing trees. A weather station is keeping a tab on the orchard....

Growing moong with sugarcane and mango orchard has turned out to be a successful cropping pattern in summer for Bihar''s Samastipur farmers....

After isolating two exotic species of farmer-friendly insect bio-agents, Assam''s State Bio-Control Laboratory is sharing them with farmers to control pests....

The fate of the birthplace of famous Dashehari variety of mango, the Dashehari village, is hanging in a balance.

In spite of a bumper mango crop this year, the mango growers of the famous Maal-Malihabad belt of UP are the losers.

Ashok Bajare, a potato cultivator from Ambegaon taluka in Pune district has reason to worry. He has a Rs eight lakh investment riding on his potato crop at his 20 acre plot in Bhavadi village....

India''s agrarian economy has long been plagued by the lack of storage, marketing and processing facilities....

Demand of flowers in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, the price of Himachal apples in Delhi markets, a new subsidy scheme for polyhouses, or new varieties of maize developed at a research centre....

It has already helped grow cereals and fodder in the desertland of Qatar, mangrove species along the highly saline Gujarat coastline, and a wide variety of plantation crops on wastelands covered with fly ash....

Even as recent media reports caution that most fruits and vegetables are largely unfit for human consumption due to their high chemical content, pesticides continue to be used recklessly in the fields of Punjab....

The bumper apple crop in Himachal Pradesh this year has failed to translate into good news for growers yet again. Drought and hail have damaged the fruits....

For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds....

Jagdish Sharma, a marginal maize farmer in Katihar, committed suicide last month....

Shortage of farm labour has pushed the Department of Agriculture in Punjab to launch a multi-pronged mechanisation programme for its farmers....

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Agency (NREGA) scheme meant to provide minimum employment of 100 days per year has had in many places a ripple effect labour shortage leading to farm mechanisation....

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.