Kashmir''s world-acclaimed saffron and its vast fields are fast dwindling, courtesy the poisonous dust emanating from nearby cement plants.

Grapes have lost their allure for the farmers of Bathinda in Punjab, a region that is home to around 70 per cent...

Himachal Pradesh is famously known as the 'Apple State of India''. But the state is now clutching the title nervously...

The Central Government has approved a Rs 1,840-crore revival package for Kerala''s Kuttanad region...

In the very first year of the 11th Five Year Plan, the agriculture sector in Uttar Pradesh has suffered a setback...

The Uttar Pradesh Government has asked the sugarcane industry to adopt agro-techniques to boost productivity.

Precision farming is set to invade Indian farms. IIM Calcutta and the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidalaya...

Despite an annual turnover of more than Rs 2,000 crore, Himachal Pradesh''s apple orchards have witnessed a decline in the yield.

Two months ago, Kailash Thate, a young man with 10 acres of farmland close to the Ujjani dam, set up an agro-processing unit to extract fibres...

Two waves of floods and an estimated damage of Rs 330 crore have not deterred the state from setting an ambitious agricultural production target for this season

The Minimum Support Price of cotton that the Punjab Government had announced on the basis of various quality parameters of the crop...

Just when Kashmir''s walnut kernel had begun doing brisk business in the international markets, recession hit and its rates tumbled, resulting in heavy losses to the growers, traders and exporters alike...

The fruit was introduced in Kashmir in 1987 to assess its climatic adaptability

Pune-Based entrepreneur Rajiv Devkar seems to have hit the jackpot in his quest to preserve mangoes without the use of cold storage facilities.

An audit scrutiny by the Comptroller and Auditor General has indicted the J-K Government for neglecting the Agriculture and Allied sector...

Sitaram Yadav, a farmer based in Gohta village of Mau district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, gives a thumbs up to the flood-tolerant Swarna Sub-1 rice variety.

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....

The G B Pant University of Agriculture at Pantnagar, along with some other premier institutions...

Multiplicity of authorities with almost no coordination, absence of a symbiotic relation among beneficiaries, NGOs and private market players...

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

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

The sudden burst of rain across Uttar Pradesh may have brought respite from the humid weather, but for the farmers across the state this has been a double blow.

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

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.

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...

Once renowned as among the best in the world, the one and a half century old Kangra tea might be on its way to a comeback if the government''s efforts bear fruit.

In spite of a bumper mango crop this year, the mango growers of the famous Maal-Malihabad belt of UP are the losers.

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....

Rain is something tribals living in the cold deserts of Spiti Himachal''s fascinating mountainous region have seldom experienced.

While North India is reeling under heavy rainfall, for the state''s farmers it has brought cheer

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

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.

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

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

Five years ago, the AP court had ordered a cut in prices of cottonseeds from Rs 1,600 to Rs 650 per bag. Other states had followed suit

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

Pesticide residue, marketing bottlenecks likely to lead to a decline in exports.

As the clamour for a hike in cotton support price grows shriller, a study has found that cost of its production in backward regions like Vidarbha has gone up by 42 per cent

Decent rainfall, coupled with contract farming and govt policies, boosts wine production

With several mills closing down and sugarcane crop unable to fetch good price, farmers of Champaran''s sugar belt have started cultivating turmeric

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

ARI has developed a high-yielding variety, to seek Centre''s permission to release it to farmers

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

World Economic Forum has chosen the state for its New Agriculture Initiative

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

The Centre has sanctioned a special irrigation scheme worth Rs 3,250 crore aimed to meet a new micro-irrigation target of 1,43,500 hectares in the Vidarbha region still coping with reports of farmer suicides

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

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