The Himachal apples will not taste as they used to do in the best days of their harvests.

An Oriya meal isn''t complete without dal, either arhar (lentil) or moong (green gram), in liberal quantity.

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

After championing a number of innovations in plant breeding and crop research, the Anand Agricultural University (AAU) in Gujarat...

Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government...

Farmers of Mankulam village panchayat in Kerala''s Idukki district are nursing their soil to reverse the damage done to it over the years.

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...

After Amritsar successfully began cultivating early crops of vegetables using tunnel technology a few years ago, Jalandhar, too, has decided to follow suit....

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.

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

Ladsavangi village in Marathwada''s Aurangabad district has always faced a severe water scarcity, and even clashes over water, for many years.

Jaggery in flavours of strawberry, mango, others has got the markets smiling...

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will now prepare a list of do''s and don''ts for farmers.

The Bt gene gave cotton farmers freedom from bollworm. Now the weedicide-resistant gene is likely to relieve them of weeds as well.

With a negative farm growth in 2009-10, will Punjab meet the 11th Five Year Plan''s projection of 2.4 pc.

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

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

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

In a year''s time, summer moong''s acreage has risen to one lakh hectares

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Meghalaya is not only the abode of the clouds but also home to one of the tastiest and best oranges in the country

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

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

Fighting climate change, state''s new mantra is diversification plum, kiwi, cherry, apricot, peach, pomegranate and strawberry being grown in the upper hills while citrus fruits and mangoes are options for the lower hills

Prices too low, middlemen eating up profits, say farmers; govt blames it on glut

With farm workers abandoning the climbing job, Coconut Development Board has launched a trained army of climbers, calling them 'friends of coconut tree''

Indian researchers, along with those from 13 other countries have sequenced the genome of the tomato and its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium

Allocates Rs 30 cr for compensation Rs 2 lakh per family; but state-sponsored report of 3 universities that studied suicide-hit districts pegs the number of affected families at over 6,500

After celebrating a record wheat production, Punjab is lagging behind in paddy cultivation. According to the Department of Agriculture, the deficit is 33 per cent as of now almost two lakh hectares less than last year

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

Devkaran Malvi of Habidabad village has been less fortunate. Heavy rains brought down his yield from 15 quintals last year to less than 10, and he may not even recover the cost of cultivation.

Having drawn up a plan to diversify from paddy, Punjab''s challenge is to find a way to market fruits and vegetables, especially when they come in a glut

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

Maharashtra villages fall back on centuries-old reservoir systems for irrigation

Ahad Mir started growing strawberries on small patch of land of land decade ago as an experiment.

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

State keeps promoting greener varieties but farmers stick to water-guzzling PUSA 44

Himachal Pradesh is looking at the strawberry as a fancy alternative to the apple in the future.

Looking to diversify from paddy, Punjab rings alarm bell at way area under various crops is being assessed on the ground.

Root stock is a mother plant of wild citrus origin, resistant to major diseases.

National Vegetable Initiative brings poly houses to Ludhiana, farmers see hope of direct selling.