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

Aeroponics reportedly ensures five to six times more production of potato minitubers as compared to traditional tissue culture system; the institute has started a commercial unit in Modipuram, UP.

In a year''s time, summer moong''s acreage has risen to one lakh hectares

Five years ago, the AP court had ordered a cut in prices of cottonseeds from Rs 1,600 to Rs 650 per bag. Other states had followed suit

As Nitish takes a tough stand against MNCs planning to sell Bt maize after selling hybrid corn seeds, farmers of Bihar''s Kosi region are a confused lot

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.

Upper Assam''s Singpho tribe will soon enjoy the exclusive right for commercial production as well as cultural promotion of two traditional varieties of rice.

While the crop''s acreage this season is highest ever in the country, the yield will now depend on weather conditions.

With the monsoon arriving late in Maharashtra, agriculture experts advised farmers to go for soybean crop instead of moong and lentil.

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.

As the Coconut Development Board shifts its focus from Kerala to Assam, the state aspires to lead the country in commercial cultivation of coconuts.

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.

At Farm Progress Show in the US, forecast of over 20 gene traits in corn, 20 years from now.

With govt doling out lavish incentives, a total of 72 wineries came up in Maharashtra by 2008. Three years on, around 30 have shut shop with production exceeding demand

The lower and mid hill belt of Himachal are giving up terrace farming to grow high-yielding and exotic cash crops in polyhouses

Fighting odds of floods, small landholdings and depleting agricultural land, state plans to introduce high-yielding, submergence-tolerant paddy varieties, double-cropping

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

To be developed at an estimated cost of Rs 76 lakh in about 2,056 square metres of land, the greenhouse is expected to be completed by July this year.

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

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

After celebrating a record wheat production, Punjab is lagging behind in paddy cultivation. According to the Department of Agriculture, the deficit is 33 per cent as of now almost two lakh hectares less than last year

Govt efforts get a boost with NABARD deciding to increase credit for dairy sector

Khargone strives to outmatch Guntur, with help from Andhra

Area under contract farming heads downward as govt looks at new policy for diversification

India, world''s largest pulse producer and exporter, remains short of requirement; erratic monsion sends projected output below last year''s

A projected honey output over 500 tonnes, 7,500 beekeepers and growing, with 29,850 bee colonies between them. Beekeeping has been catching on in Jammu and Kashmir

Churah valley, site of a flower revolution, aims to diversify to exotic roses

Weightiest boll comes up by accident, gene source for strongest fibre by design, both at Nagpur''s cotton research institute

And farmers still managed good prices in the beginning because of better marketing, though these eventually did drop in the glut.

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

Emu farmers struggle as they get focus wrong, while oil is yet to find a market

State govt remains opposed as ever but it''s Bt that thrives on cotton fields

Guar in demand in international gas industry, Gujarat farmers go for the easy, profitable option.

Population pressure telling on state''s land resources, agri university brings out high-yield options.

In Punjab''s first season of crop diversification, basmati scores on all counts, maize and cotton lose on production but gain on prices.

Private purchase at low rates jumps, says Mandi Board.

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

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A 45-year-old man was arrested in outer Delhi's Bawana area for sexually assaulting a six-year-old minor girl, police said on Tuesday.

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

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has backed "new forms of self-policing by social media platforms" and action by volunteer groups to fight hate speech spreading at "lightning speed" through digital media.

US President Donald Trump has announced his choice for Defence Secretary has withdrawn, shaking up the Pentagon at a time of rising Middle East tensions.

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.

Australias Attorney General (AG) on Wednesday declared that he would be reluctant to authorise the prosecution of journalists after federal police raids earlier in June.

Former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has sought the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) permission to play in foreign T20 leagues, following his retirement from international cricket last week.