For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds....

Always straddled with overflowing stocks, 'the Granary of India'' is now all set to have huge grainhouses. Of the total capacity of 127 lakh MT storage space to be created in the country, 71.25 lakh MT will come up in Punjab alone....

Stop indiscriminate use of pesticide on basmati, antibiotics on bees: Exporters to farmers, beekeepers

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

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

With three dams, five ponds and thousands of trees, Simon Oraon has changed lives in six Chhotanagpur villages

Twenty-eight villages in Maharashtra, 21 of them in Vidarbha, have worked their way to build, operate and own minor irrigation projects.

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

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

Private-public business model aims to make saline water in south-west Punjab useful for fish farming, biogas, dairy farms and more.

Assessments reveal that this year''s crop susceptible to pest attack in March-April would be about 40 per cent less than last year''s

A Rs 9.5-cr ICAR project sanctioned to SKUAST aims at reviving the lucrative industry

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

Alphonsos will not be seen in the market after mid-May. Their produce has anyway been very low and prices steep

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

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to cultivate jatropha to boost farmers'' income and produce bio-diesel

Govt has little role to play as farmers move to cotton, sugarcane, maize, pulses. Paddy acreage set to fall by 1 lakh hectare

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

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.

In Arunachal''s Lower Dibang Valley, the fruit slips into the hands of middlemen in the stage of flowering itself in the absence of market linkages and storage facilities.

A community radio service at Resode taluka of Maharashtra''s Washim dist is disseminating information on latest farming technologies

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

SKUAST experts teach basics of organic farming to more than 200 farmers, encourage them to take it up on a larger scale

Pearl spot fish or Karimeen, favoured by tourists and declared state fish by Kerala govtlast year, is facing extinction. Cage culture can help check the trend

As the clamour for a hike in cotton support price grows shriller, a study has found that cost of its production in backward regions like Vidarbha has gone up by 42 per cent

Farmers in Assam, who have traditionally remained content with a single crop per year, now have reasons to go for two or more crops beginning the current rabi season

Farmers told crop will be procured at the MSP from only those who register in advance

Meghalaya is not only the abode of the clouds but also home to one of the tastiest and best oranges in the country

To explore markets elsewhere in the country and abroad for its saffron, basmati rice and rajmash among various other agricultural produce, the Jammu-Kashmir government is adopting organic farming in a systematic manner

Madhya Pradesh government says it is set to clock a 10 per cent farm growth this time thanks to both state and Central schemes, steps like bonus over and above the MSP, and its agriculture becoming resilient to the vagaries of nature

State accounts for nearly 40% of total area under certified organic farming in India.

As traders pass off Dasheharis, Langra and Gulab Khas of the state as those from UP and Bihar, the Orissa horticulture dept draws post-harvest management and intelligent marketing plans

With an alternative market in place, farmers in this Kerala village now risk growing vegetables they did not produce earlier and are reaping benefits

Imported power tillers, mini-tractors to mechanise hill farming in Himachal Pradesh

BARC technology to considerably increase shelf life of the highly perishable fruit

Over 12 years after a devastating cyclone claimed its coconut forest, horticulture dept programme aims to make Orissa one of the top three states in terms of coconut productivity and area under plantation

World Bank-aided pilot idea uses GPS, cellphones and remote-sensing data to try and overcome problems of existing insurance schemes

Struggling with a severe drought-like situation, Maharashtra has a group of smiling farmers who had built farm ponds for irrigation

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.

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

Traditionally a hub of wheat and paddy crops, the state is now exporting baby corn to the UK and other European countries in a big way

High-density planting system of non-Bt cotton varieties aims to provide farmers with a 'low-cost, low-risk and high-yielding'' alternative

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

Orissa plans to raise per-hectare harvest from about 8 tonnes to 33 tonnes in the next decade; to plant Grand Naine banana rhizomes over 1,500 hectares

With demand increasing and new schemes available for farmers, mushroom farming is picking up fast in Kashmir

In Punjab''s Roopnagar district, farmers with small landholdings are shunning costly chemical fertilisers and pesticides to grow wheat, paddy, maize and vegetables, using organic methods

US-returned businessman sets up modern dairy farm, shares equipment and know-how with locals

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

Tractor sales pick up; govt promotes use of implements, launches schemes for machines on rent and at subsidy

Can withstand big retailers but need to compete: world wholesale market union