All''s not well with the horticulture industry in Jammu and Kashmir. Even as the state Government claims to have spent Rs 88 crore...

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

The first round of floods that hit Lakhimpur district in eastern Assam last week has already wreaked havoc on the farmers of that district...

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

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...

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...

Kashmir''s world-acclaimed saffron and its vast fields are fast dwindling, courtesy the poisonous dust emanating from nearby cement plants.

As the cultivation of season''s first cash crop, cherry, draws to a close in Kashmir, the growers are claiming...

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

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

After acquiring a monopoly in fruit production and sale across the country, Kashmir is now set to become the vegetable hub...

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.

Even as the national highway has opened, only a few trucks are plying with the result that fruits are not only rotting in cold storages but also in orchards. Losses so far: Rs 500 crore.

This tiny pest was ravaging mint crops until one day scientists found out how to deal with it.

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.

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

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

While average rainfall figure for Uttarakhand between June and Sept stood at 1,199 mm, Doon valley received 2,240 mm

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

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.

The agriculture department is asking farmers to spray a dilute solution of groundnut oil on the papaya plant as soon as the symptoms of the disease appear. This 'treatment technique'' has been developed by Moradabad farmers

Earlier, sanitation of the field by removal and destruction of affected papaya plants was the only way adopted by the farmers to reduce the spread of the papaya mosaic virus disease. In some cases, losses were minimised by controlling the population of aphids.

It has taken 61 years for the famous produce of the Dal Lake nadroo (lotus stem) - to reach PoK.

Developed after years of research by agriculture scientists, the much-hyped new RR-564 Basmati variety seems to have proven a failure in its first commercial utilisation in Jammu and Kashmir.

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.

Even as Kashmir loses thousands of hectares of its agricultural land to urbanisation...

The Minimum Support Price of cotton that the Punjab Government had announced on the basis of various quality parameters of the crop...

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

Just when Kashmir''s walnut kernel had begun doing brisk business in the international markets, recession hit and its rates tumbled, resulting in heavy losses to the growers, traders and exporters alike...

Nearly 10,000 farmers in Bundelkhand, Azamgarh and Mau in UP growing tulsi for international markets

The fruit was introduced in Kashmir in 1987 to assess its climatic adaptability

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

The exhaustive Dictionary of Indian Plant Gums, Resins, Dyes and Related Products by Dr M I H Farooqi is a unique effort...

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

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....

The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to fund farmers, especially those in the hills, to build polyhouses modern greenhouses, in other words...

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

Satnam Singh Mann and his group of dairy farmers are easily fielding a volley of questions from management students at Punjab Agricultural University.

Hatal, a small village in the Tiyuni area of Uttarakhand, has witnessed a quiet revolution over the last decade....

Incessant rains in Kashmir have resulted in a dip in day temperatures something which will not augur well for fruit trees.

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

Even as the jury is still out on whether genetically modified crops affect biodiversity and lack nutritive value, two districts of Gujarat...

When Ghulam Ahmad Khan, a part time farmer, decided to turn his paddy field into a strawberry plantation rather than the customary apple orchard.

The strawberry crop grown over hundreds of acres in Jammu is threatened by widespread fungal attacks.

Controlling this pest is one of the biggest challenges faced by the agriculture scientists of the country for the past four years. Its impact on crops, mainly cotton, has been devastating...

With increasing awareness of healthy diets and nutritional security gaining as much focus as food security, Indian researchers are now growing...