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

The G B Pant University of Agriculture at Pantnagar, along with some other premier institutions...

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

Come litchi season this summer, the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would be ready with the customary packets of the fruit...

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

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 UPA government''s much-hyped National Food Security Mission launched in 2007 to boost the productivity of rice....

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....

Poor production of the fruit in Kashmir, Himachal has jacked up prices in Pune markets to a minimum retail price of Rs 120 per kg....

With major parts of cane belt being located in the 47 drought-hit districts of the state, mill owners are bracing up for an acute cane shortage. Sugar price, consequently, is set to head northwards....

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.

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

A late burst of rains in Madhya Pradesh has given soybean farmers a reason to smile after a long dry period that was...

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.

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

In a minor revolution in the agrarian history of the Kashmir Valley, the farmers in the region harvested the legendary Basmati rice for the first time this autumn.

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...

With elections in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana around the corner here''s a look at how the prominent political parties in the states are wooing the powerful farmer lobby.

Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government...

Amid arguments for and against introducing genetically modified (GM) crops in India, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee....

Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....

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....

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

Since the seeds were first sown in their lands four years ago, farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district have been patiently waiting each season for wonders to happen.

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.

Asia''s largest tulip garden, which could also become the world''s largest, is feeling the heat of global warming and the changing weather pattern of the Valley.

When he would come home from his modest half-acre farm after sundown, Ramesh Pradhan wouldn''t go near his children and wife until he had bathed and changed his clothes.

Precision farming practice is scaling new heights in Punjab with net house farming of vegetables picking up not only amongst...

For almost a year now, Vittal Bawari of Talera village, around 100 km from Pune, has been growing cashews and mangoes on a part of his land.

When scientists of Sher-e- Kashmir Agricultural University of Agriculture Science and Technology developed short duration wheat and maize...

Patiasa village in Muzaffarpur district is a hive of activity where Anita Kumari keeps as busy as a bee as she spearheads a revolution of sorts.

With an irrigation project in place, Hesapiri village in Jharkhand is growing even winter crops in summer months....

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.

The fate of the birthplace of famous Dashehari variety of mango, the Dashehari village, is hanging in a balance.

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

Ashok Bajare, a potato cultivator from Ambegaon taluka in Pune district has reason to worry. He has a Rs eight lakh investment riding on his potato crop at his 20 acre plot in Bhavadi village....

Nearly 400 households in Palakkad municipal area in Kerala enjoy a special relationship with their morning cup of tea....

India''s agrarian economy has long been plagued by the lack of storage, marketing and processing facilities....

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....

It has already helped grow cereals and fodder in the desertland of Qatar, mangrove species along the highly saline Gujarat coastline, and a wide variety of plantation crops on wastelands covered with fly ash....

Even as recent media reports caution that most fruits and vegetables are largely unfit for human consumption due to their high chemical content, pesticides continue to be used recklessly in the fields of Punjab....

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....

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Agency (NREGA) scheme meant to provide minimum employment of 100 days per year has had in many places a ripple effect labour shortage leading to farm mechanisation....

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

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