Easy money policy of major developed and developing nations could aggravate inflationary expectations in India, cautioned Economic Survey for 2012-13

India witnessed a peak power shortage of 9% during the five years ending 2012 when over 50,000 MW new generation capacity was created, Economic Survey said today.

Despite the Wholesale and retail Inflation moving in opposite directions, the government today exuded confidence that the headline Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation will ease to the range of 6.2% to 6.6% in March 2013, primarily on the ...

Government today said 2012 has been a bad year for FDI due to global economic slowdown and steps were being taken to increase its inflow.

Pointing to sharp rise in bad loans, Economic Survey said the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of public sector banks are still at manageable level

Government should work towards easing "regulatory and bureaucratic impediments" to improve investment climate in the country, suggested the Economic Survey for 2012-13.

The over consumption of urea and limited use of phosphatic and potassic (P&K) fertilisers need to be addressed through appropriate price incentives by reducing subsidies to ensure sustainable practises are encouraged, Economic Survey said today.

Economic Survey growth figures as a "warning bell" as these came down from 9 to 5%, said Arun Jaitley

Prudent policy support from fiscal side and in turn monetary policy could leading to a virtuous cycle of recovery

The Survey wrongly emphasises the role of tight monetary policy as the cause of a fall in consumer and investment spending

For Rajan, the crucial aspect of today's economic development was a query that disturbs youth -"Where will my job come from?

The economic slowdown, a rise in interest rates and aggressive lending in good times led to a sharp rise in bad loans

Recommendations of Rangarajan panel on decontrolling sugar sector should be implemented

All life insurers, both public and private, are committed to process any death claim pertaining to COVID-19 at the earliest,the Council said in a statement

For a state that has resolutely led the country''s farm pack in terms of growth and reform, Punjab surprisingly refuses...

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

By pushing up its wheat stock, the state has added to India''s increased food production.

The state Government is pleased at the production, the farmer with his cheques and transporters with their business.

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

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

There is a shortage of food across the world and experts are trying to come up with ways in which the shortfall in supplies can be made up.

When Dayal Munda (45), a tribal farmer, first heard the name of Swarna Vasundhra, he never thought it would lead to a bumper crop.

The early onset of monsoon and heavy downpour have brought good news for West Bengal farmers...

All seems to be well on the farm production front. The Government will soon announce the fourth advance estimate of crop production for 2007-08...

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

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

Farmers in the Kuttanad region have been faced with a host of hurdles, ranging from sowing to marketing of the produce.

One new variety each of three vegetables - bittergourd, bottlegourd and vegetable pea developed by the scientists of G B Pant University of Agriculture...

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.

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

Come December and a rich hue of orange lights up the Punjab villages from Hoshiarpur in the north to the Abohar-Ferozepur belt in the south.

With the Rabi season around the corner, farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are facing an acute shortage of chemical fertilisers.

With the Uttarakhand Government seizing the initiative in the matter, the state might well be on its way to becoming the walnut basket of India.

Whenever Vidarbha''s farm crisis is debated, the blame is often thrust on the farmers themselves.

Scientists at Jammu and Kashmir''s agriculture university claim to have worked out the perfect script to make India one among world''s top walnut producers....

A warm winter, overflowing stocks and a rather bleak possibility of private purchase amid falling global prices, all''s not well with Punjab''s wheat crop this year.

Call it the paradox of timing clear skies when the farmers looked up for rains and it poured when they wanted the sun....

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

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....

Along with experiencing a bumper wheat crop this season, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are also forced to sell their produce for as low as Rs 910 per quintal...

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat, which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

While a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield, all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot.

The strawberry crop grown over hundreds of acres in Jammu is threatened by widespread fungal attacks.

The Himachal apples will not taste as they used to do in the best days of their harvests.

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...

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.

Assurances from the Centre has failed to dispel the mounting concerns of Kerala home to lush expanses of coconut, cardamom...

A late burst of rains in Madhya Pradesh has given soybean farmers a reason to smile after a long dry period that was...

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