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 farm workers abandoning the climbing job, Coconut Development Board has launched a trained army of climbers, calling them 'friends of coconut tree''

Punjab''s fields, mills and godowns are brimming with 172 lakh tonnes of wheat, rice, paddy. The wheat harvest is set to cross a record 120 lakh tonnes. One-third of it, worth hundreds of crores, will be stored unscientifically

Having formed a help society to start group farming and bring down costs, farmers in Punjab''s Ferozepur villages now want to process and sell their farm produces

The Centre has sanctioned a special irrigation scheme worth Rs 3,250 crore aimed to meet a new micro-irrigation target of 1,43,500 hectares in the Vidarbha region still coping with reports of farmer suicides

Indian researchers, along with those from 13 other countries have sequenced the genome of the tomato and its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium

Farmers are using innovative trench technique to grow the European vegetable they call 'jugni'', and are earning a good profit; none of them aware of its real name

Devkaran Malvi of Habidabad village has been less fortunate. Heavy rains brought down his yield from 15 quintals last year to less than 10, and he may not even recover the cost of cultivation.

In Damla, he began cultivating on his ancestral property of two acres and found it was his true calling.

Madhya Pradesh farmers fare better after picking up tricks of the trade from Punjabi settlers

The pomegranate, believed to have originated in Iran, has for ages thrived also in India, which accounts for half the world''s production, yet farmers'' responses have varied from state to state

Kashmir warms up to cultivation of its countless medicinal plants

After tryst with industry, govt shifts focus with agriculture policy that CM Naveen will unveil soon

How a family turned waterlogging from bane to boon by cultivating fish rather than paddy

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

Until the rains come, dry spots on the Tawa, Narmada and Tapti riverbeds provide a part-time farming option to villagers in Madhya Pradesh

Punjab harvests cocoons twice a year. Hoshiarpur woman shows how to do it three more times.

National Vegetable Initiative brings poly houses to Ludhiana, farmers see hope of direct selling.

Way short of demand, Kashmir promotes sheep farming.

On fields and backyards, terraces and balconies, kitchen gardens catch on in Punjab, thanks to rising vegetable prices.

Sources in the PAU fruit sciences department claim banana research had been halted midway because of lack of funds, staff and interest.

The Gurugram Police registered an FIR against an unknown youth for allegedly molesting a girl in Huda City Centre metro station on Tuesday.

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

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

The super sleuth who interrogated India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has finally penned a book revealing the don was an ordinary looking coward person, who confessed that he was involved in (organised) crime.

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.

Marta became the top scorer in the history of FIFA World Cups, including the men's tournament, after scoring her 17th overall goal in Brazil's 1-0 win against Italy in the Women's World Cup here.

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.

Cricket fans on Tuesday were busy talking about star Afghanistan player Rashid Khan, who broke an ugly record against England by becoming the most expensive bowler in the World Cup history.

All analysts are optimistic on the stock, which hasn't seen any downgrade so far

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

Experts say while the decision is positive, it may not make any significant contribution

Among the 247 actively traded scrips, 17 have shed more than 50 per cent this calendar year. About 40 per cent have slid more than the Sensex, which is down 23 per cent year-to-date

New services, new offers, new alliances and with a little help from technology, brands reimagine their relationship with consumers

The industry is at the cusp of a transformation, according to an EY report that came out in the early weeks of the Covid-19 onslaught

The earnings were better than what most of the analysts had expected. Kotak Securities, for instance, estimated the private lender to log net loss at Rs 4,404.4 crore in the quarter under review

Organic volumes for the company got severely impacted in the last 10 days of March due to the spread of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown restrictions, the company said.

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

The first day impact has been more on the pharma especially in the wake of 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd.'s facility in Ahmedabad testing positive for COVID-19

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.

Beauty products segment witnesses 0.8% decline in March, says Nielsen

CM Uddhav Thackeray on Friday shunted out BMC commissioner Praveen Pardeshi (in pic) for ‘inept’ handling of the Covid-19 crisis, replacing him with IAS officer Iqbal Singh Chahal (56) who has been secretary with the state urban development department.

In a shocking incident, a 27-year-old youth man residing in south Mumbai attacked three policemen with a chopper near Marine Drive early on Saturday morning.

Some lockdown images and words get seared to your consciousness. That of a migrant woman carrying a big bag on her head, a child on her right hip, walking from Mumbai to Karnataka to go home under a scorching May sun. A smiling migrant worker saying philosophically that they are trying to cover long distances on foot 'Ram-bharose' (at the mercy of God).

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