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.

Punjab is ready for another bumper crop of wheat but has no space to store the harvest. With the existing warehouses bursting at the seams...

The honeybee population in Himachal Pradesh has come down drastically, thanks to a mite called varroa....

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....

It has already helped grow cereals and fodder in the desertland of Qatar, mangrove species along the highly saline Gujarat coastline, and a wide variety of plantation crops on wastelands covered with fly ash....

Even as recent media reports caution that most fruits and vegetables are largely unfit for human consumption due to their high chemical content, pesticides continue to be used recklessly in the fields of Punjab....

Shortage of farm labour has pushed the Department of Agriculture in Punjab to launch a multi-pronged mechanisation programme for its farmers....

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.

With the help of technology and a Taiwanese variety of seed, Punjab''s maiden attempt at commercial cultivation of papaya is bearing fruit.

According to experts, his produce is effective in gastrointestinal problems and tests show rich curcumin content. Besides, it gives him far higher returns than traditional paddy-wheat crop

With three dams, five ponds and thousands of trees, Simon Oraon has changed lives in six Chhotanagpur villages

Orchards in hill state major consumers of vermicompost made in Punjab, a state which still banks on chemicals.

Pineapple farmers are in expansion mode in Kerala.

No freight subsidy yet for transporting crop to other states.

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

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

While sowing of paddy will begin around June 10, cotton sowing started around April 15

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

If successful, it would save paddy growers from depending on erratic monsoon and rapidly depleting ground water.

ICAR''s Krishi Vigyan Kendras are helping farmers of Vidarbha region''s Gondia district turn lac cultivation into a profitable venture

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.

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.

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

From cotton and soyabean in rainfed conditions, farmers in Wardha district have taken a bold shift towards shade-net and poly-house farming, and are reaping benefits

Successful installation of a solar pumpset in Nitish Kumar''s village shows way to farmers to look for cost-effective irrigation

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

Traditionally a hub of wheat and paddy crops, the state is now exporting baby corn to the UK and other European countries in a big way

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

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

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

Long winter, hotter summer and lack of rain take a toll on the fruit

Govt efforts get a boost with NABARD deciding to increase credit for dairy sector

Their numbers had dropped but demand for milk and meat has stayed high as ever. Now, goat rearing picks up again

Area under contract farming heads downward as govt looks at new policy for diversification

Paddy harvests coming at a high cost, state prepares blueprint for shift towards other crops

Churah valley, site of a flower revolution, aims to diversify to exotic roses

To break monopoly of state-run markets, encourage direct procurement

MP farmers rarely use chemicals but few manage the organic farming certificate to market their produce better

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

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

Banana growers in Punjab claim to be profiting heavily from the relatively new crop, but its one-crop-a-year pattern has prevented it from really catching on

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

The government is making the seed available to farmers to meet the high demand.

Sources in the PAU fruit sciences department claim banana research had been halted midway because of lack of funds, staff and interest.

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Madhukar Kamath talks to about how the succession plan unravelled at DDB Mudra

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday announced the launch of the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech.