Curb inflation, offer products such as inflation-indexed bonds, expand financial inclusion, improve access to financial products, says Survey

In real estate, India ranks 182nd in construction permission processes, the Survey says, citing a World Bank report

Fall in global commodity and non-food manufacturing sector prices come to help

For a state that has resolutely led the country''s farm pack in terms of growth and reform, Punjab surprisingly refuses...

The year began on a good note for farmers in Uttar Pradesh''s potato belt: they had recorded a bumper crop.

When the State Bank of India issued a circular instructing its branches to suspend loans for purchase of farm equipment...

Even as the debate over health effects of pesticides continues to rage, a study conducted by the Punjabi University...

Looks do matter. This seems to be the conclusion of the J-K Government as far as apple sales are concerned.

It''s a story of one crop''s gain being another crop''s loss. In Punjab''s Malwa region, the traditional cotton crop is set to lose its hectarage...

A vegetable vendor with an IIM degree under his belt - that''s 26-year-old Kaushalendra Prasad of Bihar who would rather...

Tomato and capsicum growers of Himachal Pradesh have lost some 40 to 60 per cent of their yield to fungal diseases so...

While farmers are selling potatoes for as low as Rs 1-1.50 per kilo to the middlemen, consumers are shelling out Rs 7-10 in the retail market.

In the very first year of the 11th Five Year Plan, the agriculture sector in Uttar Pradesh has suffered a setback...

Allahabad based agriculture scientist Anshuka Srivastava has developed a robot that would help farmers detect Downy Mildew, a parasite that affects grape cultivation.

In a situation mirroring the change in the national economy, the tertiary sector in Jammu and Kashmir is fast threatening to overtake the primary sector.

Two waves of floods and an estimated damage of Rs 330 crore have not deterred the state from setting an ambitious agricultural production target for this season

Unlike other villagers for whom landing a government job was the ultimate dream, Bahadur Singh Verma of Saproon valley chose farming as a career for himself.

The agriculture department is asking farmers to spray a dilute solution of groundnut oil on the papaya plant as soon as the symptoms of the disease appear. This 'treatment technique'' has been developed by Moradabad farmers

"These machines have become all the more significant with the government declaring support price on the basis of parameters like staple length and micronaire value"

Even as Kashmir loses thousands of hectares of its agricultural land to urbanisation...

With the Uttarakhand Government seizing the initiative in the matter, the state might well be on its way to becoming the walnut basket of India.

The Minimum Support Price of cotton that the Punjab Government had announced on the basis of various quality parameters of the crop...

Though Uttarakhand has often been described as a hub of herbs, it has so far failed to tap the natural resources to its potential.

It is said to surpass all qualities of basmati except the length of the latter. But surprisingly, Kalanamak, a fragrant variety of rice and named thus as its husk is black, isn''t popular among farmers....

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

How about repaying a loan in kind? This is exactly what a Kisan Bank set up in Dehradun intends to do...

They slogged to make it to prestigious engineering colleges of the country. Only to return to the farms in their villages and try their hand at something.....

Scientists at Jammu and Kashmir''s agriculture university claim to have worked out the perfect script to make India one among world''s top walnut producers....

The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme has not found many takers ever though it was launched way back in 1998. A Jammu and Kashmir Government report has pointed out that till 2007-end, not more than 74,301 cards....

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

A warm winter, overflowing stocks and a rather bleak possibility of private purchase amid falling global prices, all''s not well with Punjab''s wheat crop this year.

An audit scrutiny by the Comptroller and Auditor General has indicted the J-K Government for neglecting the Agriculture and Allied sector...

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....

In an attempt to combat the problem of shrinking farm labour availability, the worse of which is felt during the paddy season...

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat, which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

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

Tomato and capsicum crops grown in the mid-hills of the state are increasingly being lost to collar rot and leaf blight diseases.

They can be seen vying for attention in the local markets, but consumers eye them warily with sellers barely being able to persuade them to change their preference.

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

Controlling this pest is one of the biggest challenges faced by the agriculture scientists of the country for the past four years. Its impact on crops, mainly cotton, has been devastating...

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 long dry spell this monsoon has forced farmers to alter their crop pattern and switch over to the kharif cotton crop in several parts of Gujarat....

With large parts of the country being declared drought-hit, the need for a safeguard against vagaries of nature is being felt like never before.

The delayed and weak monsoon hasn''t ushered in much hope. Ranjani Raghavan visits Sangmaner in Nashik and Sinnar in Ahmednagar only...

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

With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...

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