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...

While other states are giving out distress signals of foodgrain scarcity, triggered by drought and flood fury, Punjab is not only looking at a good harvest but also hoping to gain from this adversity....

Since the seeds were first sown in their lands four years ago, farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district have been patiently waiting each season for wonders to happen.

After Amritsar successfully began cultivating early crops of vegetables using tunnel technology a few years ago, Jalandhar, too, has decided to follow suit....

Mulberry tea, which is being relished in some parts of the world, is set to reach our teapots soon. Scientists at Jammu...

The total area under rice cultivation in Assam, which registered a bumper record production of 40.7 lakh metric tonnes of rice...

Asia''s largest tulip garden, which could also become the world''s largest, is feeling the heat of global warming and the changing weather pattern of the Valley.

When scientists of Sher-e- Kashmir Agricultural University of Agriculture Science and Technology developed short duration wheat and maize...

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...

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

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

Assam is counting on boro rice to achieve the target of 46.7 lakh-metric tonnes that it has set for the crop this year.

The fate of the birthplace of famous Dashehari variety of mango, the Dashehari village, is hanging in a balance.

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....

The bumper apple crop in Himachal Pradesh this year has failed to translate into good news for growers yet again. Drought and hail have damaged the fruits....

For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds....

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.

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

Poultry farmers in the remote hills of Manipur have found two new birds Australian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and turkey.

With three dams, five ponds and thousands of trees, Simon Oraon has changed lives in six Chhotanagpur villages

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

Pineapple farmers are in expansion mode in Kerala.

Maoists in Orissa tonight extended by 48 hours the government''s deadline for meeting their demands to secure the release of Malkangiri Collector.

Grown as a wild bush in Ladakh, seabuck thorn is slowly bringing prosperity in the mountainous region.

Mango growers of Marathwada region fear more than 50 per cent losses this season.

India stands tall in gloomy world scenario

While sowing of paddy will begin around June 10, cotton sowing started around April 15

Kerala, Karnataka may have banned the popular insecticide, but experts warn that farmers may have only more hazardous and more expensive options to choose from

Basmati acreage likely to be up again this year but it is the slender rice variety, sharbati, that is luring farmers in Punjab and Haryana more

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

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.

Kinnows a citrus fruit considered a half-brother of orange are set to be costlier this season with Punjab staring at a poor yield of the fruit.

Two consecutive years of drought in the state had hit kharif crops paddy, millet and oilseeds

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

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

Farmers told crop will be procured at the MSP from only those who register in advance

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

Meghalaya is not only the abode of the clouds but also home to one of the tastiest and best oranges in the country

With the average wholesale onion price crashing to Rs 3-4 per kg across the country, the growers in Maharashtra and elsewhere have got little or no returns

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

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

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

Prices too low, middlemen eating up profits, say farmers; govt blames it on glut

MP hopes to procure 7.4 mn MT wheat this season, three times the target needed to meet its PDS requirement

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

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

Incessant rainfall and low temperatures have already caused 60-70% crop loss, likely to breed diseases too

Area under the paddy crop has gone up to more than 2 lakh acres in 6 years; private firms coming up with processing plants