In early April this year, when boro (summer) paddy covering a record 3.25 lakh hectares was just beginning to flower....

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.

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.

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

Small farmers badly hit though overall rice output won''t diminish owing to bumper crop in major growing areas.

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

New norms to bring in safety regulations at each link of the food chain

Early this year, the farmers had fetched more than Rs 1,200 for cardamom.

Even as monsoon is late by a month and less than normal, the state is hopeful of a record yield of Sali variety.

As the Coconut Development Board shifts its focus from Kerala to Assam, the state aspires to lead the country in commercial cultivation of coconuts.

The inspiration comes from Tripura, which is second only to Kerala in rubber production in the country.

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

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

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

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

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

Can withstand big retailers but need to compete: world wholesale market union

Organic by default, rich in nutrients, bao-dhaan gets bulk order from California

Laser levellers catch Punjab farmers'' fancy, help save water, fertiliser, power

After tryst with industry, govt shifts focus with agriculture policy that CM Naveen will unveil soon

Pictures released by NASA some months ago, showing large-scale smoke emerging from the fields of Punjab due to burning of straw

A 45-year-old man was arrested in outer Delhi's Bawana area for sexually assaulting a six-year-old minor girl, police said on Tuesday.

The super sleuth who interrogated India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has finally penned a book revealing the don was an ordinary looking coward person, who confessed that he was involved in (organised) crime.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Donald Trump at the latter's request.

Following the embarrassing defeat against India in the ongoing World Cup, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani has told captain Sarfaraz Ahmed that they should focus on the remaining four matches of the tournament.

Unacademy says its internal investigation had found e-mail data of around 11 million users was compromised.

GSK leads the charge with staggered return-to-work, others plans yoga sessions and health care webinars for salesperson's family

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