Banana grower Adhinath Barve of Junnar tehsil in Pune district is expecting to double his exports when he begins harvesting his three-acre plantation in February next year.

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

It pays to go Dutch. Ask Rasila Kothari, 52, who took to commercial cultivation of Dutch roses in Chandwe village, near Ranchi in Jharkhand.

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

The total area under rice cultivation in Assam, which registered a bumper record production of 40.7 lakh metric tonnes of rice...

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

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.

Across the Malihabad town of Uttar Pradesh, growers are joyously looking at their blooming trees. This year has seen a record flowering and the blooms are so far not even infested with pests.

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...

Cautiously, but convincingly, farmers of Katewadi in Baramati district have embraced organic farming, bidding farewell to pesticides and chemical fertilisers for the sake of their own health and that of their crops.

At a first-of-its-kind 'scientifically-managed'' orchard at Kotgarh''s Harmony Hall Orchard, associated with the legendary Samuel Evans Stokes, around 10,000 fresh plants have replaced ageing trees. A weather station is keeping a tab on the orchard....

After isolating two exotic species of farmer-friendly insect bio-agents, Assam''s State Bio-Control Laboratory is sharing them with farmers to control pests....

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

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.

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....

'Udaan'' is a terrific, moving coming-of-age film, made by first-time director Vikramaditya Motwane.

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....

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....

Shortage of farm labour has pushed the Department of Agriculture in Punjab to launch a multi-pronged mechanisation programme for its farmers....

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....

In early April this year, when boro (summer) paddy covering a record 3.25 lakh hectares was just beginning to flower....

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.

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.

Jaggery in flavours of strawberry, mango, others has got the markets smiling...

Finally, there''s hope for the shrinking saffron fields of 226 hamlets in Pampore along the Srinagar-Jammu National highway close to the summer capital.

With three dams, five ponds and thousands of trees, Simon Oraon has changed lives in six Chhotanagpur villages

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

Twenty-eight villages in Maharashtra, 21 of them in Vidarbha, have worked their way to build, operate and own minor irrigation projects.

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.

Assessments reveal that this year''s crop susceptible to pest attack in March-April would be about 40 per cent less than last year''s

Experts say that even if the weather turns unfavourable, the state may lose only 1 to 1.5 per cent of the crop and still be the highest wheat producing state this year

Alphonsos will not be seen in the market after mid-May. Their produce has anyway been very low and prices steep

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

A doctor in the Valley gave up a career in medicine to cultivate lavender. Eight years on, she has won a state award with many following in her footsteps

Kerala, Karnataka may have banned the popular insecticide, but experts warn that farmers may have only more hazardous and more expensive options to choose from

Giant Noor Jahans grow only on three trees left in the Katthiwara area of MP''s Alirajpur district

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to cultivate jatropha to boost farmers'' income and produce bio-diesel

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

Basmati acreage likely to be up again this year but it is the slender rice variety, sharbati, that is luring farmers in Punjab and Haryana more

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

In Arunachal''s Lower Dibang Valley, the fruit slips into the hands of middlemen in the stage of flowering itself in the absence of market linkages and storage facilities.

With subsidy from govt, sugar factories have placed orders for harvesters from abroad.

At Farm Progress Show in the US, forecast of over 20 gene traits in corn, 20 years from now.

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

The state was chosen for the India-UK study as it is most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change

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