Unlike other villagers for whom landing a government job was the ultimate dream, Bahadur Singh Verma of Saproon valley chose farming as a career for himself.

Just when Valley growers were celebrating the bumper fruit crop and the beginning of cross LoC trade, early snowfall in Kashmir this winter ruined their party.

Orissa is staring at a mini drought after lack of winter rain has led to wilting of standing paddy crops in over 2.86 lakh hectares of land.

They slogged to make it to prestigious engineering colleges of the country. Only to return to the farms in their villages and try their hand at something.....

Satnam Singh Mann and his group of dairy farmers are easily fielding a volley of questions from management students at Punjab Agricultural University.

For the past year and a half, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Y S Matta is doing organic farming on his 30 acres of land in Kalomajra village....

If the Congress-led government returns to power, it will help resume exports of wheat and rice and continue existing policies but if it needs the support of its Leftist allies....

Even though the weather and soil conditions here can seldom be compared, the yield seems to have transcended those boundaries.

While varieties like Rajapuri haven''t made it to the Mumbai markets at all, others like Badami and Lalbaug have been hit by a peculiar lack of demand

The National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, is working to develop transgenic varieties of mangoes and bananas...

The UPA government''s much-hyped National Food Security Mission launched in 2007 to boost the productivity of rice....

Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful "invasive weeds" which made their...

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

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.

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

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.

India needs to prepare itself in advance as acute foodgrain scarcity is likely by 2020.

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

A Rs 9.5-cr ICAR project sanctioned to SKUAST aims at reviving the lucrative industry

Embryo transfer technology is expected to improve cattle breed in Himachal and enhance its milk production

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to cultivate jatropha to boost farmers'' income and produce bio-diesel

But low procurement, no publicity result in marginal benefits for tribals.

With the monsoon arriving late in Maharashtra, agriculture experts advised farmers to go for soybean crop instead of moong and lentil.

SKUAST experts teach basics of organic farming to more than 200 farmers, encourage them to take it up on a larger scale

While retail prices of milk in Maharashtra have been hiked thrice in less than a year, the state govt is struggling to keep dairy farmers in business

To explore markets elsewhere in the country and abroad for its saffron, basmati rice and rajmash among various other agricultural produce, the Jammu-Kashmir government is adopting organic farming in a systematic manner

State accounts for nearly 40% of total area under certified organic farming in India.

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

BARC technology to considerably increase shelf life of the highly perishable fruit

World Bank-aided pilot idea uses GPS, cellphones and remote-sensing data to try and overcome problems of existing insurance schemes

To be developed at an estimated cost of Rs 76 lakh in about 2,056 square metres of land, the greenhouse is expected to be completed by July this year.

Under an ICAR project, NRCM in Nagaland is working on increasing population of mithuns a milch animal referred to as the 'ship of the highland'' or 'cattle of the mountains'' through embryo transfer technology and has recently seen its first success

Incessant rainfall and low temperatures have already caused 60-70% crop loss, likely to breed diseases too

With demand increasing and new schemes available for farmers, mushroom farming is picking up fast in Kashmir

Dairy Development Board of Punjab is promoting milk substitute for better growth of calves

US-returned businessman sets up modern dairy farm, shares equipment and know-how with locals

A projected honey output over 500 tonnes, 7,500 beekeepers and growing, with 29,850 bee colonies between them. Beekeeping has been catching on in Jammu and Kashmir

Tractor sales pick up; govt promotes use of implements, launches schemes for machines on rent and at subsidy

Punjab introduces two summer varieties of mushrooms, traditionally seen as a winter crop

Milk is the what sustains farmers in the rain-fed hills of Namhol in Himachal Pradesh. An initiative of six or seven families taken in 2001

Emu farmers struggle as they get focus wrong, while oil is yet to find a market

Private players return for wheat, govt misses procurement target but says happy farmers earned

On the outskirts of Srinagar city, sprawling residential colonies have cropped up over the years.

Population pressure telling on state''s land resources, agri university brings out high-yield options.

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Rome, June 19 (IANS/AKI) Italy's new European Union Commissioner will concentrate on businesses and on employment, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini vowed on Tuesday.

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 US dollar strengthened modestly against its major rivals in late trading on Tuesday amid the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting.