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Jayant Ghosh refuses to step into stereotypes. He is a farmer who struts about in Wrangler jeans and Reid and Tailor shirts...

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

India resumed selling mangoes to the US last year. Exports are now set to rise ten-fold.

The state Government is pleased at the production, the farmer with his cheques and transporters with their business.

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

There is a shortage of food across the world and experts are trying to come up with ways in which the shortfall in supplies can be made up.

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...

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

What is the spot-on way of regenerating our rural economy? Ask the 308 small farmers of Ghugial village in Hoshiarpur district...

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

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

While Punjab''s Malwa belt is witnessing rising incidence of cancer - largely due to addiction to alcohol and tobacco...

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.

Precision farming is set to invade Indian farms. IIM Calcutta and the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidalaya...

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.

When a demand and supply story goes horribly wrong, a bumper crop like that of potatoes in Uttar Pradesh...

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

It is said to surpass all qualities of basmati except the length of the latter. But surprisingly, Kalanamak, a fragrant variety of rice and named thus as its husk is black, isn''t popular among farmers....

How about repaying a loan in kind? This is exactly what a Kisan Bank set up in Dehradun intends to do...

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....

A warm winter, overflowing stocks and a rather bleak possibility of private purchase amid falling global prices, all''s not well with Punjab''s wheat crop this year.

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

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

While a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield, all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot.

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

For a state that is battling labour shortage and has little water for irrigation, sowing paddy without flooding the fields (the method is called puddling) will surely prove to be a blessing.

More than 500 women labourers of Gumla district in Jharkhand no longer migrate when there is no work in farms. Instead, they flock to nearby markets to sell the poultry they rear....

With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...

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....

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....

At first glance, the lush green fields barely convince that this is one of the dry regions of Andhra Pradesh.

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

Around this time of the year, bright yellow flowers carpet the fields in scores of villages in Bihar's Vaishali district.

You''ll soon be in no hurry to use the tomatoes in your kitchen before they go mushy.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

Since the advent of the Green Revolution popularised use of excessive irrigation and fertilisers in India in the 1960s, biodynamic farming...

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....

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.

Rain is something tribals living in the cold deserts of Spiti Himachal''s fascinating mountainous region have seldom experienced.

Ganesh Jadhav, like many other farmers at Vavna and Sonari villages in drought-prone Marathwada''s Phulambri tehsil.

At Kharar in Punjab, a hi-tech greenhouse covering an acre has the capacity to produce up to 35 lakh whole-root seedlings of fruits and vegetables. An Israeli agriculture specialist and a Delhi-based entrepreneur are behind it

BAMU in Aurangabad would have notched a top slot.