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....

Farmers of Mankulam village panchayat in Kerala''s Idukki district are nursing their soil to reverse the damage done to it over the years.

Two droughts wiping out 50 per cent of the rabi crop, the apple produce reduced to half of its usual quantity, the unusual rise in temperature...

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

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

Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture.

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....

Mulberry tea, which is being relished in some parts of the world, is set to reach our teapots soon. Scientists at Jammu...

The diversification stride in the country''s granary state has reached banana groves. The baby step was taken in 2005 in a small village...

Just when the Indian strawberry had begun going places, its journey looks all set to be cut short. Mahabaleshwar, the country''s strawberry capital, is unlikely to export the fruit this year.

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.

For long, the mulberry silk produced in Jammu-Kashmir Valley was taken to faraway Western countries. As years passed by, silk looms here stopped spinning as fast...

Growing moong with sugarcane and mango orchard has turned out to be a successful cropping pattern in summer for Bihar''s Samastipur farmers....

In the peak of June as tourists make a beeline for the interior villages of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh

Once renowned as among the best in the world, the one and a half century old Kangra tea might be on its way to a comeback if the government''s efforts bear fruit.

In spite of a bumper mango crop this year, the mango growers of the famous Maal-Malihabad belt of UP are the losers.

Demand of flowers in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, the price of Himachal apples in Delhi markets, a new subsidy scheme for polyhouses, or new varieties of maize developed at a research centre....

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.

With no funds coming under the Intensive Cotton Development Programme and a Centre-state blame-game on in full swing, cotton farmers in Punjab are again left on their own to struggle against their fate and pests

While North India is reeling under heavy rainfall, for the state''s farmers it has brought cheer

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to step up its production of spices in the current financial year.

As rubber trees replace coconut plantations and labour becomes scarce in Kerala, neighbouring states, particularly Tamil Nadu, look set to reap benefits of the crop better

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

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

Growing silently since early 1980s, small gardens have now come to contribute over 20 per cent to the total tea output of Assam

Orchards in hill state major consumers of vermicompost made in Punjab, a state which still banks on chemicals.

The Bt gene gave cotton farmers freedom from bollworm. Now the weedicide-resistant gene is likely to relieve them of weeds as well.

Grown as a wild bush in Ladakh, seabuck thorn is slowly bringing prosperity in the mountainous region.

Even as India and Pakistan deliberate on a 'corridor'' for Sikh pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara.

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

Govt may concede to the EPFO proposal for an extra 1% interest rate hike on retirement savings.

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

New norms to bring in safety regulations at each link of the food chain

Embryo transfer technology is expected to improve cattle breed in Himachal and enhance its milk production

In Gumla district''s rice belts, which remain barren for six months in a year, a social worker has introduced farmers to fruits and horticultural plants

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

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

ICAR''s Krishi Vigyan Kendras are helping farmers of Vidarbha region''s Gondia district turn lac cultivation into a profitable venture

Tea mosquito bug is the most serious pest of cashew plantation.

With the monsoon arriving late in Maharashtra, agriculture experts advised farmers to go for soybean crop instead of moong and lentil.

Kinnows a citrus fruit considered a half-brother of orange are set to be costlier this season with Punjab staring at a poor yield of the fruit.

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

Two consecutive years of drought in the state had hit kharif crops paddy, millet and oilseeds

With govt doling out lavish incentives, a total of 72 wineries came up in Maharashtra by 2008. Three years on, around 30 have shut shop with production exceeding demand

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

The inspiration comes from Tripura, which is second only to Kerala in rubber production in the country.

While retail prices of milk in Maharashtra have been hiked thrice in less than a year, the state govt is struggling to keep dairy farmers in business