It was not the Congress that had defeated the BJP in the 1998 Assembly elections in four states, it was the onion. The vegetable remains as politically potent.

The UPA government''s much-hyped National Food Security Mission launched in 2007 to boost the productivity of rice....

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....

With large parts of the country being declared drought-hit, the need for a safeguard against vagaries of nature is being felt like never before.

An Oriya meal isn''t complete without dal, either arhar (lentil) or moong (green gram), in liberal quantity.

A late burst of rains in Madhya Pradesh has given soybean farmers a reason to smile after a long dry period that was...

In a minor revolution in the agrarian history of the Kashmir Valley, the farmers in the region harvested the legendary Basmati rice for the first time this autumn.

While the government is looking to offset the losses in Kharif production on account of the drought with an increase in productivity levels and area...

Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government...

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....

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...

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.

She is possibly the most expensive baby in the country today and certainly among the most pampered.

What was once an arid land, now wears a bright orange hue. From Punjab''s belt bordering Rajasthan Abohar in Ferozepur, Muktsar and Bhatinda...

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

Around this time of the year, bright yellow flowers carpet the fields in scores of villages in Bihar's Vaishali district.

This rain-shadow village in Kerala''s Palakkad district made history when it forced soft drink giant Coca Cola to cork its bottling plant for excessive exploitation of ground water....

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

You''ll soon be in no hurry to use the tomatoes in your kitchen before they go mushy.

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

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.

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.

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...

Growing moong with sugarcane and mango orchard has turned out to be a successful cropping pattern in summer for Bihar''s Samastipur farmers....

In the peak of June as tourists make a beeline for the interior villages of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh

Since the advent of the Green Revolution popularised use of excessive irrigation and fertilisers in India in the 1960s, biodynamic farming...

India''s agrarian economy has long been plagued by the lack of storage, marketing and processing facilities....

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

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

Stop indiscriminate use of pesticide on basmati, antibiotics on bees: Exporters to farmers, beekeepers

As rubber trees replace coconut plantations and labour becomes scarce in Kerala, neighbouring states, particularly Tamil Nadu, look set to reap benefits of the crop better

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

Fruit production in Jammu and Kashmir has touched 20 lakh metric tonnes this season an all time high thanks to bumper apple crop.

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

Growing silently since early 1980s, small gardens have now come to contribute over 20 per cent to the total tea output of Assam

Small farmers badly hit though overall rice output won''t diminish owing to bumper crop in major growing areas.

Unprecedented prices to ensure Punjab farmers junk paddy, embrace cotton in coming season

Pineapple farmers are in expansion mode in Kerala.

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

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

A lone farmer rids a vast 200 acres of farm land of all pests with the use of ancient Indian science of Ayurveda.

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

Govt may concede to the EPFO proposal for an extra 1% interest rate hike on retirement savings.