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

You could say it is a summer of education for the farmers in Gujarat. But there are no boring classes in hot, windless rooms.

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...

All''s not well with the horticulture industry in Jammu and Kashmir. Even as the state Government claims to have spent Rs 88 crore...

When Dayal Munda (45), a tribal farmer, first heard the name of Swarna Vasundhra, he never thought it would lead to a bumper crop.

Uttar Pradesh Government''s idea to introduce mentha (mint) -one of the most popular cash crops among farmers these...

Kashmir''s world-acclaimed saffron and its vast fields are fast dwindling, courtesy the poisonous dust emanating from nearby cement plants.

Himachal Pradesh is famously known as the 'Apple State of India''. But the state is now clutching the title nervously...

The Central Government has approved a Rs 1,840-crore revival package for Kerala''s Kuttanad region...

After acquiring a monopoly in fruit production and sale across the country, Kashmir is now set to become the vegetable hub...

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.

Farmers in the Kuttanad region have been faced with a host of hurdles, ranging from sowing to marketing of the produce.

This tiny pest was ravaging mint crops until one day scientists found out how to deal with it.

This spring when unexpected heavy snowfall destroyed white blooms of almonds in Kashmir, a bumper harvest was the last thing on anyone''s mind.

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

On Tuesday, as a convoy of 12 pick-up vans carrying different varieties of fruits from the Valley crossed the Kaman Bridge, fruit growers lined up on the LoC to see off the vehicles.

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

Just when Valley growers were celebrating the bumper fruit crop and the beginning of cross LoC trade, early snowfall in Kashmir this winter ruined their party.

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

Come December and a rich hue of orange lights up the Punjab villages from Hoshiarpur in the north to the Abohar-Ferozepur belt in the south.

With the Rabi season around the corner, farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are facing an acute shortage of chemical fertilisers.

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.

Commercial cultivation of flowers is gradually picking up in Jammu and Kashmir.

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 turned out to be a prosperous 2008 for Punjab farmers as they reaped rich dividends from the bumper wheat and paddy crops. The plentiful season brought some cheer for the state Government as well with Punjab farmers

Just when Kashmir''s walnut kernel had begun doing brisk business in the international markets, recession hit and its rates tumbled, resulting in heavy losses to the growers, traders and exporters alike...

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...

Pin hopes on rainfall in February; besides rabi crop and fruit orchards, cash crops like peas, cabbage, potato, garlic and onion also damaged

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....

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

Satnam Singh Mann and his group of dairy farmers are easily fielding a volley of questions from management students at Punjab Agricultural University.

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

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

Even though the weather and soil conditions here can seldom be compared, the yield seems to have transcended those boundaries.

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

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

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.

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...

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.

Assurances from the Centre has failed to dispel the mounting concerns of Kerala home to lush expanses of coconut, cardamom...

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

The pungent aroma of pepper no longer floats in Wayanad''s Pulpally village once the largest producer of the famous...

In a year characterised by the aftershocks of economic slow down hitting almost every sector, apple orchard owners in Himachal Pradesh still have reason to smile.

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...