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

All seems to be well on the farm production front. The Government will soon announce the fourth advance estimate of crop production for 2007-08...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Himachal''s apple revolution, which spawned an economy worth Rs 1,500 crore, has its roots in the Kotgarh belt in the upper Shimla region, 82 km from here.

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...

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

Allahabad based agriculture scientist Anshuka Srivastava has developed a robot that would help farmers detect Downy Mildew, a parasite that affects grape cultivation.

Punjab not only banned early sowing and reined in errant millers this paddy season but also relied on large-scale mechanisation.

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 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...

One new variety each of three vegetables - bittergourd, bottlegourd and vegetable pea developed by the scientists of G B Pant University of Agriculture...

Tucked away from Himachal''s prosperous vegetable and fruit belt, Pangi is yet to grab the spotlight it deserves for growing organic fruits and vegetables in abundance.

Mushroom was thought to be poisonous at Sonapur in Assam''s Kamrup district till a vigorous campaign was mounted to promote its commercial cultivation

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.

"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"

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.

Though Uttarakhand has often been described as a hub of herbs, it has so far failed to tap the natural resources to its potential.

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

After more than a decade of hectic efforts and numerous trials, scientists at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture.

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....

Pune-Based entrepreneur Rajiv Devkar seems to have hit the jackpot in his quest to preserve mangoes without the use of cold storage facilities.

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.

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...

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat, which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

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.

While varieties like Rajapuri haven''t made it to the Mumbai markets at all, others like Badami and Lalbaug have been hit by a peculiar lack of demand

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

The National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, is working to develop transgenic varieties of mangoes and bananas...

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.

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....

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...

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

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.

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

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...