In a year''s time, summer moong''s acreage has risen to one lakh hectares

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

While sowing of paddy will begin around June 10, cotton sowing started around April 15

Despite knowing that its storage capacity was far less, the state government revised its wheat procurement target twice. Procurement shot up due to a populist measure of Rs 100 per quintal bonus

Three anti-hail guns, part of a Rs 27-cr pilot project , could protect only those areas where they were installed. One gun covers between 80 and 100 hectares

Govt has little role to play as farmers move to cotton, sugarcane, maize, pulses. Paddy acreage set to fall by 1 lakh hectare

If successful, it would save paddy growers from depending on erratic monsoon and rapidly depleting ground water.

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

But low procurement, no publicity result in marginal benefits for tribals.

Pesticide residue, marketing bottlenecks likely to lead to a decline in exports.

Upper Assam''s Singpho tribe will soon enjoy the exclusive right for commercial production as well as cultural promotion of two traditional varieties of rice.

Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, is for the past one year, trying to find a way to control the gall disease that has affected almost 50 per cent of the eucalyptus trees.

Even as monsoon is late by a month and less than normal, the state is hopeful of a record yield of Sali variety.

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.

Horticulture department has for the first time sown the crop on three farms, cooperative society procured 1,200 quintals of turmeric seeds from Maharashtra this season.

Kinnows a citrus fruit considered a half-brother of orange are set to be costlier this season with Punjab staring at a poor yield of the fruit.

Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, is looking at partnering with farmers and absorbent cotton manufacturers to promote organic desi cotton as raw material

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

The inspiration comes from Tripura, which is second only to Kerala in rubber production in the country.

Prolonged monsoon and high temperature led to delay in planting of the fruit saplings in Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani

The potato seeds, said scientists, will reduce J-K''s dependence on other states.

As the clamour for a hike in cotton support price grows shriller, a study has found that cost of its production in backward regions like Vidarbha has gone up by 42 per cent

Farmers in Assam, who have traditionally remained content with a single crop per year, now have reasons to go for two or more crops beginning the current rabi season

Decent rainfall, coupled with contract farming and govt policies, boosts wine production

The air is cool and dry in the hills of Himachal Pradesh.

State accounts for nearly 40% of total area under certified organic farming in India.

40,000 commission agents on warpath in Punjab against direct pay to farmers.

Cites its agricultural marketing rules to deny direct payment to over 13 lakh farmers

Fighting climate change, state''s new mantra is diversification plum, kiwi, cherry, apricot, peach, pomegranate and strawberry being grown in the upper hills while citrus fruits and mangoes are options for the lower hills

ARI has developed a high-yielding variety, to seek Centre''s permission to release it to farmers

Prices too low, middlemen eating up profits, say farmers; govt blames it on glut

From cotton and soyabean in rainfed conditions, farmers in Wardha district have taken a bold shift towards shade-net and poly-house farming, and are reaping benefits

Successful installation of a solar pumpset in Nitish Kumar''s village shows way to farmers to look for cost-effective irrigation

Crop loss figure already stands at Rs 200 cr

Having formed a help society to start group farming and bring down costs, farmers in Punjab''s Ferozepur villages now want to process and sell their farm produces

The Centre has sanctioned a special irrigation scheme worth Rs 3,250 crore aimed to meet a new micro-irrigation target of 1,43,500 hectares in the Vidarbha region still coping with reports of farmer suicides

Traditionally a hub of wheat and paddy crops, the state is now exporting baby corn to the UK and other European countries in a big way

Allocates Rs 30 cr for compensation Rs 2 lakh per family; but state-sponsored report of 3 universities that studied suicide-hit districts pegs the number of affected families at over 6,500

High-density planting system of non-Bt cotton varieties aims to provide farmers with a 'low-cost, low-risk and high-yielding'' alternative

NRC-Y is encouraging Brokpas to adopt scientific methods of yak rearing; training them on product diversification for better returns

After celebrating a record wheat production, Punjab is lagging behind in paddy cultivation. According to the Department of Agriculture, the deficit is 33 per cent as of now almost two lakh hectares less than last year

Orissa plans to raise per-hectare harvest from about 8 tonnes to 33 tonnes in the next decade; to plant Grand Naine banana rhizomes over 1,500 hectares

Long winter, hotter summer and lack of rain take a toll on the fruit

Inflammable pine needles that caused forest fires are now being used as bio fuel, giving Himachal Pradesh villages a source of income

But things may change for one of the largest potato belts of Maharashtra this year.

Ties up with a Japanese agency to share and transfer knowledge, experience and technologies for soybean cultivation

Govt efforts get a boost with NABARD deciding to increase credit for dairy sector

Area under the paddy crop has gone up to more than 2 lakh acres in 6 years; private firms coming up with processing plants