Twenty-eight villages in Maharashtra, 21 of them in Vidarbha, have worked their way to build, operate and own minor irrigation projects.

Maoists in Orissa tonight extended by 48 hours the government''s deadline for meeting their demands to secure the release of Malkangiri Collector.

A lone farmer rids a vast 200 acres of farm land of all pests with the use of ancient Indian science of Ayurveda.

Grown as a wild bush in Ladakh, seabuck thorn is slowly bringing prosperity in the mountainous region.

Gold medalist sets up farmers'' club in Muzaffarpur, motivates villagers to cultivate land they had left untouched for fear of Maoists.

Even as India and Pakistan deliberate on a 'corridor'' for Sikh pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara.

Mango growers of Marathwada region fear more than 50 per cent losses this season.

Aeroponics reportedly ensures five to six times more production of potato minitubers as compared to traditional tissue culture system; the institute has started a commercial unit in Modipuram, UP.

Group farming: Beginning with a sheep breeding project, a self-help group of 15 women at a small village in Aurangabad have expanded to grow vegetables, turmeric and ginger on around 10 acres of land.

Govt may concede to the EPFO proposal for an extra 1% interest rate hike on retirement savings.

Private-public business model aims to make saline water in south-west Punjab useful for fish farming, biogas, dairy farms and more.

Aurangabad''s Marathwada University shows how to grow roses in a hostile climate and earn money from it too.

Long winter, good snowfall makes climate favourable for a quality harvest this year.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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