Tomato and capsicum crops grown in the mid-hills of the state are increasingly being lost to collar rot and leaf blight diseases.

While the government is looking to offset the losses in Kharif production on account of the drought with an increase in productivity levels and area...

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

Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture.

Precision farming practice is scaling new heights in Punjab with net house farming of vegetables picking up not only amongst...

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.

Farmers want to return to wheat-paddy cycle as Punjab''s ambitious bid to usher in a citrus revolution has come a cropper....

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.

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

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

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

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

Acute shortage of agricultural labour in Punjab earlier forced farmers to use paddy transplanters.

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.

With subsidy from govt, sugar factories have placed orders for harvesters from abroad.

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

The state was chosen for the India-UK study as it is most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change

Pearl spot fish or Karimeen, favoured by tourists and declared state fish by Kerala govtlast year, is facing extinction. Cage culture can help check the trend

Central Institute for Cotton Research has come up with high-density plantation system for Maharashtra and MP

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

Imported power tillers, mini-tractors to mechanise hill farming in Himachal Pradesh

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

Hives of the wild rock bee are no longer burnt by beekeepers in Melghat, who have learnt scientific techniques and are extracting enough to export

Madhya Pradesh looks to procure more wheat than never before, draws in farmers with bonuses.

If a MP farmer claims damage relief, govt will buy only what is supposed to remain

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

Burning crop residue after harvest on the field itself is common in Madhya Pradesh. One may not always get to see the flames

A sweet change is gradually entering the farms of Bathinda. Farmers are commercially testing a crop they have hitherto known as not-a-very-popular

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

Jammu and Kashmir''s efforts to promote pisciculture as a means of employment are gradually drawing in young Kashmiris.

US President Donald Trump has formally kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign at a rally in Orlando, Florida.

Maria Sharapova defeated Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia to make progress in the 2019 Mallorca Open.

US President Donald Trump has formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign at a rally in Orlando, Florida, and called on his supporters to deliver a metaphorical "earthquake" at the ballots against his Democratic Party rivals.

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.

Peru came from behind to clinch a 3-1 win over Bolivia and keep alive their hopes of progressing to the Copa America knockout stage.

The Republican Sena has approached the Delhi Police complaining that some people tried to spread rumours that its party President Anandraj Ambedkar, grandson of B.R. Ambedkar, joined the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Adding to the plethora of outages that apps from major tech giants have been suffering lately, Google's Calendar refused to work for over nearly three hours for users around the world.

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

A set of graphics tracking how the number of coronavirus positive cases have moved on a daily basis since India's total touched 100 on March 15

Firm suspends guidance because of pressure in key geographies

How can governments and health agencies drive lasting lifestyle changes to combat Covid-19?

The tea industry, hit by rising costs, falling prices and political unrest in the North Bengal plantations, is especially vulnerable to the Covid-19 lockdown

PMI's services did contract, with trade, hospitality coming to a grinding halt, though the pace of fall in the index was not as steep as that of the core sector

Unacademy says its internal investigation had found e-mail data of around 11 million users was compromised.

HCL has provided 7,000 PPE kits complying to the SITRA and HLL specifications, 20,000 three-ply masks, 55 liters of sanitizer and two hands-free wash basins to the district administration.

The banks together claimed over Rs 230 crore from the company, along with interest and other charges