For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country...

The fruit was introduced in Kashmir in 1987 to assess its climatic adaptability

Even as Punjab struggles to shrug off the tag of a state with the highest use of pesticides in the country, it is faced with another problem...

The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to fund farmers, especially those in the hills, to build polyhouses modern greenhouses, in other words...

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.

Sitaram Yadav, a farmer based in Gohta village of Mau district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, gives a thumbs up to the flood-tolerant Swarna Sub-1 rice variety.

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

Direct Seeded Rice, on which successful experiments were carried out in UP last season, is ready for large-scale cultivation

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

With increasing awareness of healthy diets and nutritional security gaining as much focus as food security, Indian researchers are now growing...

It was not the Congress that had defeated the BJP in the 1998 Assembly elections in four states, it was the onion. The vegetable remains as politically potent.

The UPA government''s much-hyped National Food Security Mission launched in 2007 to boost the productivity of rice....

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

Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....

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....

What was once an arid land, now wears a bright orange hue. From Punjab''s belt bordering Rajasthan Abohar in Ferozepur, Muktsar and Bhatinda...

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

GUAVA, called the poor man''s apple, is the sixth most cultivated fruit in India. But the wilt disease has stagnated its yield over the years....

This rain-shadow village in Kerala''s Palakkad district made history when it forced soft drink giant Coca Cola to cork its bottling plant for excessive exploitation of ground water....

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

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

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

The honeybee population in Himachal Pradesh has come down drastically, thanks to a mite called varroa....

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....

Shortage of farm labour has pushed the Department of Agriculture in Punjab to launch a multi-pronged mechanisation programme for its farmers....

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Agency (NREGA) scheme meant to provide minimum employment of 100 days per year has had in many places a ripple effect labour shortage leading to farm mechanisation....

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.

Uttarakhand farmers strike gold by cultivating amaranth a red cereal crop rich in vitamins

With the help of technology and a Taiwanese variety of seed, Punjab''s maiden attempt at commercial cultivation of papaya is bearing fruit.

At Kharar in Punjab, a hi-tech greenhouse covering an acre has the capacity to produce up to 35 lakh whole-root seedlings of fruits and vegetables. An Israeli agriculture specialist and a Delhi-based entrepreneur are behind it

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will now prepare a list of do''s and don''ts for farmers.

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

Giant Noor Jahans grow only on three trees left in the Katthiwara area of MP''s Alirajpur district

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

Besides, the solvent extraction technology is also not environment-friendly.

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

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

As govt works on a tie-up, Orissa farmers to directly sell their produce to a supermarket chain

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

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

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

Drip irrigation growing year by year in Maharashtra, bringing rich rewards to farmers and helping save water

Farmer experiments on barren land with lemongrass, a crop never grown in Punjab before.

Punjab launches solar-powered pumps for drip irrigation to save water and power, draws in farmers with 70% subsidy

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

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

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

Nearly a third of fruits and vegetables go waste for lack of post-harvesting facilities. The annual loss is Rs 2 lakh crore, a nationwide study estimates.

Preservation of onions and using powder or dried flakes is way of ushering a change in kitchen.