Private-public business model aims to make saline water in south-west Punjab useful for fish farming, biogas, dairy farms and more.

Aurangabad''s Marathwada University shows how to grow roses in a hostile climate and earn money from it too.

Long winter, good snowfall makes climate favourable for a quality harvest this year.

In six months, Haryana''s poultry business up by 10-15 pc as dry, parched south Haryana wakes up to high demand, higher returns

A Rs 9.5-cr ICAR project sanctioned to SKUAST aims at reviving the lucrative industry

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

Five years ago, the AP court had ordered a cut in prices of cottonseeds from Rs 1,600 to Rs 650 per bag. Other states had followed suit

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

Controlled application of gamma rays on fruits and vegetables increases their shelf-life, reduces spoilage an answer to post-harvest storage problems

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

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.

Acute shortage of agricultural labour in Punjab earlier forced farmers to use paddy transplanters.

While the crop''s acreage this season is highest ever in the country, the yield will now depend on weather conditions.

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.

As the Coconut Development Board shifts its focus from Kerala to Assam, the state aspires to lead the country in commercial cultivation of coconuts.

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.

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

With govt doling out lavish incentives, a total of 72 wineries came up in Maharashtra by 2008. Three years on, around 30 have shut shop with production exceeding demand

Besides, the solvent extraction technology is also not environment-friendly.

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.

Central Institute for Cotton Research has come up with high-density plantation system for Maharashtra and MP

The lower and mid hill belt of Himachal are giving up terrace farming to grow high-yielding and exotic cash crops in polyhouses

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

With several mills closing down and sugarcane crop unable to fetch good price, farmers of Champaran''s sugar belt have started cultivating turmeric

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

Meghalaya is not only the abode of the clouds but also home to one of the tastiest and best oranges in the country

Madhya Pradesh government says it is set to clock a 10 per cent farm growth this time thanks to both state and Central schemes, steps like bonus over and above the MSP, and its agriculture becoming resilient to the vagaries of nature

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

With an alternative market in place, farmers in this Kerala village now risk growing vegetables they did not produce earlier and are reaping benefits

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

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

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

Punjab''s fields, mills and godowns are brimming with 172 lakh tonnes of wheat, rice, paddy. The wheat harvest is set to cross a record 120 lakh tonnes. One-third of it, worth hundreds of crores, will be stored unscientifically

To be developed at an estimated cost of Rs 76 lakh in about 2,056 square metres of land, the greenhouse is expected to be completed by July this year.

Under an ICAR project, NRCM in Nagaland is working on increasing population of mithuns a milch animal referred to as the 'ship of the highland'' or 'cattle of the mountains'' through embryo transfer technology and has recently seen its first success

In Himachal Pradesh, Kangra alone has 30,000 farmers engaged in bee-keeping, producing 1,200 MT honey annually if unfavourable weather conditions don''t play spoilsport

Indian researchers, along with those from 13 other countries have sequenced the genome of the tomato and its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium

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

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