Policy on price and procurement support should not encourage more production of abundant crops

Fall in global commodity and non-food manufacturing sector prices come to help

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If you are wont to frequenting Delhi''s five-star hotels, chances are your palate has developed a fond familiarity with...

Jayant Ghosh refuses to step into stereotypes. He is a farmer who struts about in Wrangler jeans and Reid and Tailor shirts...

Last fortnight, Kerala''s paddy farmers took a strong beating after the state was lashed by strong, unseasonal showers...

The farmers of Dindori, the emerging hub of grape cultivation near Nashik, are fanning out to exports, wine grapes cultivation and wineries

India resumed selling mangoes to the US last year. Exports are now set to rise ten-fold.

For years, Jawher in Maharashtra battled poverty and malnutrition. But mango exports have changed the fortunes of this village

The wheat producing states of Punjab and Haryana have finally embraced the concept of silos...

This May-end, around 270 pomegranate farmers from Atpadi will be the first graduates of the Sheti Shalas...

On Wednesday, farmers across 150 districts in the country got details pertaining to rainfall, temperature, wind speed...

As the cultivation of season''s first cash crop, cherry, draws to a close in Kashmir, the growers are claiming...

Tired of fighting for the statutory minimum price for their sugarcane, many farmers in Kolhapur district...

Some say it began with the Mayans who used a stick to plant maize in unprepared soil while others trace it to ancient Egypt.

Even as the national highway has opened, only a few trucks are plying with the result that fruits are not only rotting in cold storages but also in orchards. Losses so far: Rs 500 crore.

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

Allahabad based agriculture scientist Anshuka Srivastava has developed a robot that would help farmers detect Downy Mildew, a parasite that affects grape cultivation.

On Tuesday, as a convoy of 12 pick-up vans carrying different varieties of fruits from the Valley crossed the Kaman Bridge, fruit growers lined up on the LoC to see off the vehicles.

Earlier, sanitation of the field by removal and destruction of affected papaya plants was the only way adopted by the farmers to reduce the spread of the papaya mosaic virus disease. In some cases, losses were minimised by controlling the population of aphids.

Four farmer communities from different parts of the country were recently felicitated by the Government for their efforts at preserving...

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

Satnam Singh Mann and his group of dairy farmers are easily fielding a volley of questions from management students at Punjab Agricultural University.

Hatal, a small village in the Tiyuni area of Uttarakhand, has witnessed a quiet revolution over the last decade....

When Ghulam Ahmad Khan, a part time farmer, decided to turn his paddy field into a strawberry plantation rather than the customary apple orchard.

Controlling this pest is one of the biggest challenges faced by the agriculture scientists of the country for the past four years. Its impact on crops, mainly cotton, has been devastating...

More than 500 women labourers of Gumla district in Jharkhand no longer migrate when there is no work in farms. Instead, they flock to nearby markets to sell the poultry they rear....

With large parts of the country being declared drought-hit, the need for a safeguard against vagaries of nature is being felt like never before.

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

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

With elections in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana around the corner here''s a look at how the prominent political parties in the states are wooing the powerful farmer lobby.

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

Amid arguments for and against introducing genetically modified (GM) crops in India, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee....

For the first time, Valley''s purple swathes of centuries-old saffron fields found a place in Kashmir''s tourism map when a state-sponsored...

Around this time of the year, bright yellow flowers carpet the fields in scores of villages in Bihar's Vaishali district.

At Ratu village in Ranchi district, farmers use buckets to pull water from wells to irrigate their fields. Repeating the work in...

When he would come home from his modest half-acre farm after sundown, Ramesh Pradhan wouldn''t go near his children and wife until he had bathed and changed his clothes.

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

With an irrigation project in place, Hesapiri village in Jharkhand is growing even winter crops in summer months....

Cautiously, but convincingly, farmers of Katewadi in Baramati district have embraced organic farming, bidding farewell to pesticides and chemical fertilisers for the sake of their own health and that of their crops.

With private exporters locating overseas customers for bhot jolokiya, Assam has for the first time gone for a systematic cultivation of one of world''s hottest chillies....

At a first-of-its-kind 'scientifically-managed'' orchard at Kotgarh''s Harmony Hall Orchard, associated with the legendary Samuel Evans Stokes, around 10,000 fresh plants have replaced ageing trees. A weather station is keeping a tab on the orchard....

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

Since the advent of the Green Revolution popularised use of excessive irrigation and fertilisers in India in the 1960s, biodynamic farming...

Demand of flowers in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, the price of Himachal apples in Delhi markets, a new subsidy scheme for polyhouses, or new varieties of maize developed at a research centre....

Always straddled with overflowing stocks, 'the Granary of India'' is now all set to have huge grainhouses. Of the total capacity of 127 lakh MT storage space to be created in the country, 71.25 lakh MT will come up in Punjab alone....

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to step up its production of spices in the current financial year.

Stop indiscriminate use of pesticide on basmati, antibiotics on bees: Exporters to farmers, beekeepers

Growing silently since early 1980s, small gardens have now come to contribute over 20 per cent to the total tea output of Assam

With American cotton dominating India''s white fields for long, agriculturists are now set to cultivate desi varieties.