With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...

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...

Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge...

For almost a year now, Vittal Bawari of Talera village, around 100 km from Pune, has been growing cashews and mangoes on a part of his land.

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....

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

No freight subsidy yet for transporting crop to other states.

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.

In six months, Haryana''s poultry business up by 10-15 pc as dry, parched south Haryana wakes up to high demand, higher returns

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

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.

The potato seeds, said scientists, will reduce J-K''s dependence on other states.

The lower and mid hill belt of Himachal are giving up terrace farming to grow high-yielding and exotic cash crops in polyhouses

Farmers told crop will be procured at the MSP from only those who register in advance

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

Struggling with a severe drought-like situation, Maharashtra has a group of smiling farmers who had built farm ponds for irrigation

But things may change for one of the largest potato belts of Maharashtra this year.

The pomegranate, believed to have originated in Iran, has for ages thrived also in India, which accounts for half the world''s production, yet farmers'' responses have varied from state to state

Punjab launches solar-powered pumps for drip irrigation to save water and power, draws in farmers with 70% subsidy

With farmers reluctant to look beyond paddy, diversifying Punjab plans assured price for basmati

Over the past decade, the industry has seen a rapid rise, opening a new window for jobs and livelihood.

Institute tests new variety of potato that is healthier and suitable for consumption of diabetes patients.

With the earbuds' firm hold, short braided cable, and water-resistant design, the Sport Pro is a quality companion for your workouts

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has backed "new forms of self-policing by social media platforms" and action by volunteer groups to fight hate speech spreading at "lightning speed" through digital media.

Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has quit as reports of a domestic violence incident from nearly nine years ago surfaced marring his chances for confirmation even as Washington readies for a possible confrontation with Iran.

Maria Sharapova defeated Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia to make progress in the 2019 Mallorca Open.

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen repeatedly said that for the development of the country, primary necessity is primary health and education services. If health is not given importance then a country or a nation cannot prosper. The backbone of a country is the development of these two.

The Republican Sena has approached the Delhi Police complaining that some people tried to spread rumours that its party President Anandraj Ambedkar, grandson of B.R. Ambedkar, joined the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

The tea industry, hit by rising costs, falling prices and political unrest in the North Bengal plantations, is especially vulnerable to the Covid-19 lockdown

The industry is at the cusp of a transformation, according to an EY report that came out in the early weeks of the Covid-19 onslaught

With job losses and redundancies looming large, firms have taken to the idea of reskilling their workforce with gusto

Lenders say the larger challenge is to communicate to borrowers the difference between moratorium and waiver

PMI's services did contract, with trade, hospitality coming to a grinding halt, though the pace of fall in the index was not as steep as that of the core sector

Analysts believe the bank will be unable to maintain high AUM growth and will likely see a sharp rise in credit cost & deterioration in incremental deposit mix, amid the current lockdown

In a shocking incident, a 27-year-old youth man residing in south Mumbai attacked three policemen with a chopper near Marine Drive early on Saturday morning.

(This story originally appeared in MumbaiMirror on May 9, 2020)

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