A K Ganguly confirmed on Tuesday that he had resigned as chairman of the WBHRC.

Delays in environment clearances needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis for achieving coal production target of 795 MT during the current five year plan (2012-17), the Economic Survey said today.

The Economic Survey today said slippage on fiscal deficit will be restricted to 0.2 percentage point this year as expenditure measures could offset the shortfall in revenue collections

The mutual fund industry has registered an increase of 29.4 per cent in the market value of its assets under management (AUM) during the first three quarters of the current financial year. According to the Economic Survey, the market value of the ...

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The wheat producing states of Punjab and Haryana have finally embraced the concept of silos...

Even as the world spins into a global food crisis, here''s some good news from Assam. Scientists in the Assam Agricultural...

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...

Grapes have lost their allure for the farmers of Bathinda in Punjab, a region that is home to around 70 per cent...

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

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

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.

For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country...

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

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.

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

It is said to surpass all qualities of basmati except the length of the latter. But surprisingly, Kalanamak, a fragrant variety of rice and named thus as its husk is black, isn''t popular among farmers....

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

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.

Sitaram Yadav, a farmer based in Gohta village of Mau district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, gives a thumbs up to the flood-tolerant Swarna Sub-1 rice variety.

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.

Direct Seeded Rice, on which successful experiments were carried out in UP last season, is ready for large-scale cultivation

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

Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful "invasive weeds" which made their...

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.

Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge...

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

GUAVA, called the poor man''s apple, is the sixth most cultivated fruit in India. But the wilt disease has stagnated its yield over the years....

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.

When scientists of Sher-e- Kashmir Agricultural University of Agriculture Science and Technology developed short duration wheat and maize...

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...

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

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.

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.

Pineapple farmers are in expansion mode in Kerala.

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

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

Giant Noor Jahans grow only on three trees left in the Katthiwara area of MP''s Alirajpur district

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

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

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

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

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

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