The gentle mountain slopes in this fascinatingly beautiful place at once catch the attention not merely for their idyllic setting and extremely hospitable people....

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....

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...

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.

It prided itself for being the land of orchards. This year, however, many in Karnikhera village in the border district of Ferozepur in Punjab...

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...

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

Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture.

After Amritsar successfully began cultivating early crops of vegetables using tunnel technology a few years ago, Jalandhar, too, has decided to follow suit....

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...

At Ratu village in Ranchi district, farmers use buckets to pull water from wells to irrigate their fields. Repeating the work in...

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

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.

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.

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.

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....

The honeybee population in Himachal Pradesh has come down drastically, thanks to a mite called varroa....

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.

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.

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....

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....

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....

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....

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.

Forget the French wine, you can soon have a taste of our very own Punjabi wine.

With the help of technology and a Taiwanese variety of seed, Punjab''s maiden attempt at commercial cultivation of papaya is bearing fruit.

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

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

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

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will now prepare a list of do''s and don''ts for farmers.

Pineapple farmers are in expansion mode in Kerala.

India needs to prepare itself in advance as acute foodgrain scarcity is likely by 2020.

The Bt gene gave cotton farmers freedom from bollworm. Now the weedicide-resistant gene is likely to relieve them of weeds as well.

While the state agriculture department introduced oil palm cultivation in 2001, Mamit rather woke up a little late.

No freight subsidy yet for transporting crop to other states.

Grown as a wild bush in Ladakh, seabuck thorn is slowly bringing prosperity in the mountainous region.

Gold medalist sets up farmers'' club in Muzaffarpur, motivates villagers to cultivate land they had left untouched for fear of Maoists.

SC: 'Bring in more transparency, open CVC to non civil servants too''.