Even as the debate over health effects of pesticides continues to rage, a study conducted by the Punjabi University...

You could say it is a summer of education for the farmers in Gujarat. But there are no boring classes in hot, windless rooms.

All''s not well with the horticulture industry in Jammu and Kashmir. Even as the state Government claims to have spent Rs 88 crore...

A vegetable vendor with an IIM degree under his belt - that''s 26-year-old Kaushalendra Prasad of Bihar who would rather...

Tomato and capsicum growers of Himachal Pradesh have lost some 40 to 60 per cent of their yield to fungal diseases so...

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

The agriculture department is asking farmers to spray a dilute solution of groundnut oil on the papaya plant as soon as the symptoms of the disease appear. This 'treatment technique'' has been developed by Moradabad farmers

It has taken 61 years for the famous produce of the Dal Lake nadroo (lotus stem) - to reach PoK.

Mushroom was thought to be poisonous at Sonapur in Assam''s Kamrup district till a vigorous campaign was mounted to promote its commercial cultivation

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.

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

Even as Punjab struggles to shrug off the tag of a state with the highest use of pesticides in the country, it is faced with another problem...

The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to fund farmers, especially those in the hills, to build polyhouses modern greenhouses, in other words...

As the tulip garden by the banks of the Dal Lake is thrown open to the public, the authorities are skeptic about how long the breathtaking view of the flowers in full glory would last.

It''s no longer serving its purpose only in the household kitchen. High-quality potato produced in the lower region of Himachal Pradesh....

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

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...

For long, the mulberry silk produced in Jammu-Kashmir Valley was taken to faraway Western countries. As years passed by, silk looms here stopped spinning as fast...

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....

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

At Kharar in Punjab, a hi-tech greenhouse covering an acre has the capacity to produce up to 35 lakh whole-root seedlings of fruits and vegetables. An Israeli agriculture specialist and a Delhi-based entrepreneur are behind it

Partha Chatterjee and Mukul Roy have submitted an audio CD containing the speech

Alphonsos will not be seen in the market after mid-May. Their produce has anyway been very low and prices steep

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

Tea mosquito bug is the most serious pest of cashew plantation.

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.

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

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

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.

NRC-Y is encouraging Brokpas to adopt scientific methods of yak rearing; training them on product diversification for better returns

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

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

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

What makes Maharashtra click in horticulture.

Himachal apples suffer for bumper production, lack of preservation facilities and rush to market

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.

The Karnataka Congress suspended its senior legislator from Bengaluru R. Roshan Baig for anti-party activities, a party official said late Tuesday.

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

US President Donald Trump has announced his choice for Defence Secretary has withdrawn, shaking up the Pentagon at a time of rising Middle East tensions.

US stocks ended higher as hopes of easing trade tensions cheered on Wall Street ahead of the upcoming G20 Summit in Japan.

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.

Australias Attorney General (AG) on Wednesday declared that he would be reluctant to authorise the prosecution of journalists after federal police raids earlier in June.

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.

Following the embarrassing defeat against India in the ongoing World Cup, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani has told captain Sarfaraz Ahmed that they should focus on the remaining four matches of the tournament.

Australia's state of Victoria on Wednesday became the first in the country to legalize euthanasia for the terminally ill as the law on voluntary assisted death (VAD) entered into force.

As regional language media consumption soars during the lockdown, social media app ShareChat goes full throttle with brand integrations

With customers caught in a swirl of panic and fear, life insurance companies are looking at confidence building measures for a post Covid-19 world

However, the virtual shutdown of the economy and the question mark surrounding the return to normalcy mean the markets are not yet out of the woods