The farmers of Dindori, the emerging hub of grape cultivation near Nashik, are fanning out to exports, wine grapes cultivation and wineries

By pushing up its wheat stock, the state has added to India''s increased food production.

Even as the world spins into a global food crisis, here''s some good news from Assam. Scientists in the Assam Agricultural...

This May-end, around 270 pomegranate farmers from Atpadi will be the first graduates of the Sheti Shalas...

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.

On Wednesday, farmers across 150 districts in the country got details pertaining to rainfall, temperature, wind speed...

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

With farmers turning entrepreneurs by forming companies through Special Economic Zones a wine company for the first time has invited farmers to become shareholders.

FinanceMinister P Chidambaram on Thursday asked public sector banks to come out with a list of farmers...

The early onset of monsoon and heavy downpour have brought good news for West Bengal farmers...

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

Grapes have lost their allure for the farmers of Bathinda in Punjab, a region that is home to around 70 per cent...

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

Tired of fighting for the statutory minimum price for their sugarcane, many farmers in Kolhapur district...

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

Some say it began with the Mayans who used a stick to plant maize in unprepared soil while others trace it to ancient Egypt.

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

The Amarnath land row which prevented the Kashmir apple crop from reaching the wholesale market, proved to be a blessing in disguise for Himachal''s orchards.

For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country...

With less than normal rainfall, the farms in Gujarat are grappling with shortage of both power and water for irrigation.

The Uttar Pradesh Government has asked the sugarcane industry to adopt agro-techniques to boost productivity.

With the World Bank giving a call to shift focus on agriculture to tackle food crisis, data gleaned from Punjab's villages only add to its urgency.

Two months ago, Kailash Thate, a young man with 10 acres of farmland close to the Ujjani dam, set up an agro-processing unit to extract fibres...

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.

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.

Earlier, sanitation of the field by removal and destruction of affected papaya plants was the only way adopted by the farmers to reduce the spread of the papaya mosaic virus disease. In some cases, losses were minimised by controlling the population of aphids.

It has taken 61 years for the famous produce of the Dal Lake nadroo (lotus stem) - to reach PoK.

Developed after years of research by agriculture scientists, the much-hyped new RR-564 Basmati variety seems to have proven a failure in its first commercial utilisation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Orissa is staring at a mini drought after lack of winter rain has led to wilting of standing paddy crops in over 2.86 lakh hectares of land.

"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"

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

Call it the paradox of timing clear skies when the farmers looked up for rains and it poured when they wanted the sun....

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

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....

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

If the Congress-led government returns to power, it will help resume exports of wheat and rice and continue existing policies but if it needs the support of its Leftist allies....

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...