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

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...

Four farmer communities from different parts of the country were recently felicitated by the Government for their efforts at preserving...

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.

The current spell of rainfall and snow in the upper and middle hills of Himachal Pradesh may translate into some respite for farmers and orchardists...

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....

It''s no longer serving its purpose only in the household kitchen. High-quality potato produced in the lower region of Himachal Pradesh....

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...

Even as the jury is still out on whether genetically modified crops affect biodiversity and lack nutritive value, two districts of Gujarat...

Farmers growing cotton have reason to cheer. They will not have to worry about mealybugs which severely damage the crop even before flowering.

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

Soaring potato prices have returned to haunt farmers and average consumers this summer again.

For a state that is battling labour shortage and has little water for irrigation, sowing paddy without flooding the fields (the method is called puddling) will surely prove to be a blessing.

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 slipping into the league of least-growing states in agriculture, Punjab has made a turnaround in the last two years....

Poor production of the fruit in Kashmir, Himachal has jacked up prices in Pune markets to a minimum retail price of Rs 120 per kg....

With major parts of cane belt being located in the 47 drought-hit districts of the state, mill owners are bracing up for an acute cane shortage. Sugar price, consequently, is set to head northwards....

An Oriya meal isn''t complete without dal, either arhar (lentil) or moong (green gram), in liberal quantity.

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...

Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government...

The sudden burst of rain across Uttar Pradesh may have brought respite from the humid weather, but for the farmers across the state this has been a double blow.

The gentle mountain slopes in this fascinatingly beautiful place at once catch the attention not merely for their idyllic setting and extremely hospitable people....

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

Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge...

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

At Ratu village in Ranchi district, farmers use buckets to pull water from wells to irrigate their fields. Repeating the work in...

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

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.

It has already helped grow cereals and fodder in the desertland of Qatar, mangrove species along the highly saline Gujarat coastline, and a wide variety of plantation crops on wastelands covered with fly ash....

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....

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

In early April this year, when boro (summer) paddy covering a record 3.25 lakh hectares was just beginning to flower....

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.

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

Ladsavangi village in Marathwada''s Aurangabad district has always faced a severe water scarcity, and even clashes over water, for many years.

To take the markets to farmers who now have to reach out to the buyers themselves as one of its key targets

According to experts, his produce is effective in gastrointestinal problems and tests show rich curcumin content. Besides, it gives him far higher returns than traditional paddy-wheat crop

Small farmers badly hit though overall rice output won''t diminish owing to bumper crop in major growing areas.

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

While the state agriculture department introduced oil palm cultivation in 2001, Mamit rather woke up a little late.

Gold medalist sets up farmers'' club in Muzaffarpur, motivates villagers to cultivate land they had left untouched for fear of Maoists.

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.

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

Early this year, the farmers had fetched more than Rs 1,200 for cardamom.

If successful, it would save paddy growers from depending on erratic monsoon and rapidly depleting ground water.

Acute shortage of agricultural labour in Punjab earlier forced farmers to use paddy transplanters.

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

Horticulture department has for the first time sown the crop on three farms, cooperative society procured 1,200 quintals of turmeric seeds from Maharashtra this season.