With demand increasing and new schemes available for farmers, mushroom farming is picking up fast in Kashmir

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

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

US-returned businessman sets up modern dairy farm, shares equipment and know-how with locals

Late rains make Punjab opt for more basmati while Haryana moves towards paddy varieties with assured minimum support price

Area under contract farming heads downward as govt looks at new policy for diversification

India, world''s largest pulse producer and exporter, remains short of requirement; erratic monsion sends projected output below last year''s

Devkaran Malvi of Habidabad village has been less fortunate. Heavy rains brought down his yield from 15 quintals last year to less than 10, and he may not even recover the cost of cultivation.

Paddy harvests coming at a high cost, state prepares blueprint for shift towards other crops

Beekeeping and its promise attract an advocate, a coffee maker and other professionals in Punjab

A projected honey output over 500 tonnes, 7,500 beekeepers and growing, with 29,850 bee colonies between them. Beekeeping has been catching on in Jammu and Kashmir

Lahaul potato finds a favourable market this year but farmers keep looking at other options

Having drawn up a plan to diversify from paddy, Punjab''s challenge is to find a way to market fruits and vegetables, especially when they come in a glut

Its consumption puts other states to shame, govt sets out to boost production with training but struggles with marketing outside

Churah valley, site of a flower revolution, aims to diversify to exotic roses

Madhya Pradesh farmers fare better after picking up tricks of the trade from Punjabi settlers

Kashmir warms up to cultivation of its countless medicinal plants

Says horticulture booming alongside agriculture, but not all are convinced

Hives of the wild rock bee are no longer burnt by beekeepers in Melghat, who have learnt scientific techniques and are extracting enough to export

Punjab''s alternative fruit will be sweet when the kinnow is still sour, and with more value

If a MP farmer claims damage relief, govt will buy only what is supposed to remain

Punjab Agriculture University launches two new varieties each of paddy and basmati; most farmers opt for the paddy option that promises the higher yield

Punjab launches solar-powered pumps for drip irrigation to save water and power, draws in farmers with 70% subsidy

After tryst with industry, govt shifts focus with agriculture policy that CM Naveen will unveil soon

How a family turned waterlogging from bane to boon by cultivating fish rather than paddy

Ahad Mir started growing strawberries on small patch of land of land decade ago as an experiment.

Burning crop residue after harvest on the field itself is common in Madhya Pradesh. One may not always get to see the flames

Neeli Raavi population dwindling in Punjab, scientists striving to save it see hope from across the border

Milk is the what sustains farmers in the rain-fed hills of Namhol in Himachal Pradesh. An initiative of six or seven families taken in 2001

Emu farmers struggle as they get focus wrong, while oil is yet to find a market

Banana growers in Punjab claim to be profiting heavily from the relatively new crop, but its one-crop-a-year pattern has prevented it from really catching on

Private players return for wheat, govt misses procurement target but says happy farmers earned

Temperatures rising by the year and rainfall erratic, Punjab sets up centre for research on how its changing climate has been affecting its crops, and how to protect them

Himachal Pradesh begins apple season with hopes of a bumper harvest and good prices

Already producing enough paddy to sustain itself, Assam sets about building modern mills

State keeps promoting greener varieties but farmers stick to water-guzzling PUSA 44

Himachal Pradesh is looking at the strawberry as a fancy alternative to the apple in the future.

Looking to diversify from paddy, Punjab rings alarm bell at way area under various crops is being assessed on the ground.

Over the past decade, the industry has seen a rapid rise, opening a new window for jobs and livelihood.

The government is making the seed available to farmers to meet the high demand.

Private purchase at low rates jumps, says Mandi Board.

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Rome, June 19 (IANS/AKI) Italy's new European Union Commissioner will concentrate on businesses and on employment, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini vowed on Tuesday.

A 45-year-old man was arrested in outer Delhi's Bawana area for sexually assaulting a six-year-old minor girl, police said on Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump has announced his choice for Defence Secretary has withdrawn, shaking up the Pentagon at a time of rising Middle East tensions.

The super sleuth who interrogated India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has finally penned a book revealing the don was an ordinary looking coward person, who confessed that he was involved in (organised) crime.

US President Donald Trump has formally kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign at a rally in Orlando, Florida.