Survey reiterates commitment to fiscal consolidation

Madras HC ordered the closure of liquor shops noting that there were huge crowds and no social distancing was being maintained by tipplers, however, doorstep delivery through online mode was allowed

If freed from the laws that govern its use, bamboo can be the new green gold, says a study conducted by the India...

This May-end, around 270 pomegranate farmers from Atpadi will be the first graduates of the Sheti Shalas...

When the State Bank of India issued a circular instructing its branches to suspend loans for purchase of farm equipment...

It''s a story of one crop''s gain being another crop''s loss. In Punjab''s Malwa region, the traditional cotton crop is set to lose its hectarage...

With farmers turning entrepreneurs by forming companies through Special Economic Zones a wine company for the first time has invited farmers to become shareholders.

Tired of fighting for the statutory minimum price for their sugarcane, many farmers in Kolhapur district...

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

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

Two months ago, Kailash Thate, a young man with 10 acres of farmland close to the Ujjani dam, set up an agro-processing unit to extract fibres...

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

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....

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

How about repaying a loan in kind? This is exactly what a Kisan Bank set up in Dehradun intends to do...

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

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat, which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

The National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, is working to develop transgenic varieties of mangoes and bananas...

As urbanisation feasts on Dehradun''s famed rice, its cultivation moves out of the traditional zones of Majra and Niranjanpur to elsewhere in Uttarakhand. The government, too, admits as much in the Assembly....

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....

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.

Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....

Two droughts wiping out 50 per cent of the rabi crop, the apple produce reduced to half of its usual quantity, the unusual rise in temperature...

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.

It prided itself for being the land of orchards. This year, however, many in Karnikhera village in the border district of Ferozepur in Punjab...

The total area under rice cultivation in Assam, which registered a bumper record production of 40.7 lakh metric tonnes of rice...

The diversification stride in the country''s granary state has reached banana groves. The baby step was taken in 2005 in a small village...

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.

For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds....

A team from the Forest Research Institute (FRI), the country''s premier forest research organisation, will soon travel to Cambodia, to save one of the major attractions of that country.

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

Pesticide residue, marketing bottlenecks likely to lead to a decline in exports.

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

As the clamour for a hike in cotton support price grows shriller, a study has found that cost of its production in backward regions like Vidarbha has gone up by 42 per cent

Fighting climate change, state''s new mantra is diversification plum, kiwi, cherry, apricot, peach, pomegranate and strawberry being grown in the upper hills while citrus fruits and mangoes are options for the lower hills

Crop loss figure already stands at Rs 200 cr

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

Orissa plans to raise per-hectare harvest from about 8 tonnes to 33 tonnes in the next decade; to plant Grand Naine banana rhizomes over 1,500 hectares

Area under the paddy crop has gone up to more than 2 lakh acres in 6 years; private firms coming up with processing plants

On one side, fear of wipe-out by foreign arrivals. On the other, hopes of better infrastructure

Organic by default, rich in nutrients, bao-dhaan gets bulk order from California

With farmers reluctant to look beyond paddy, diversifying Punjab plans assured price for basmati

Natural formulation hopes to fight ticks in dairy, meat animals without side-effects

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

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

Sources in the PAU fruit sciences department claim banana research had been halted midway because of lack of funds, staff and interest.

The Mi Dual Driver earphones have a bass-heavy sound output and, considering the price, they have a fair performance

The Karnataka Congress suspended its senior legislator from Bengaluru R. Roshan Baig for anti-party activities, a party official said late Tuesday.