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Singapore : Springer, 2019.

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Zaid crops are planted during March-May - the intervening period between Rabi and Kharif, which starts with monsoon in June.

The lockdown has curbed movement of the cereal from neighbouring states to mandis in Haryana and Punjab.

The state Government is pleased at the production, the farmer with his cheques and transporters with their business.

While farmers are selling potatoes for as low as Rs 1-1.50 per kilo to the middlemen, consumers are shelling out Rs 7-10 in the retail market.

The Uttar Pradesh Government has asked the sugarcane industry to adopt agro-techniques to boost productivity.

Tucked away from Himachal''s prosperous vegetable and fruit belt, Pangi is yet to grab the spotlight it deserves for growing organic fruits and vegetables in abundance.

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...

With the Uttarakhand Government seizing the initiative in the matter, the state might well be on its way to becoming the walnut basket of India.

It turned out to be a prosperous 2008 for Punjab farmers as they reaped rich dividends from the bumper wheat and paddy crops. The plentiful season brought some cheer for the state Government as well with Punjab farmers

Along with experiencing a bumper wheat crop this season, farmers in Uttar Pradesh are also forced to sell their produce for as low as Rs 910 per quintal...

With increasing awareness of healthy diets and nutritional security gaining as much focus as food security, Indian researchers are now growing...

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.

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...

The sudden burst of rain across Uttar Pradesh may have brought respite from the humid weather, but for the farmers across the state this has been a double blow.

Amid arguments for and against introducing genetically modified (GM) crops in India, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee....

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

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

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

In spite of a bumper mango crop this year, the mango growers of the famous Maal-Malihabad belt of UP are the losers.

Ashok Bajare, a potato cultivator from Ambegaon taluka in Pune district has reason to worry. He has a Rs eight lakh investment riding on his potato crop at his 20 acre plot in Bhavadi village....

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will now prepare a list of do''s and don''ts for farmers.

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

Globetrotting farmers, NRIs come together in Punjab to sell exotic and high-value vegetables in domestic and offshore markets.

Assessments reveal that this year''s crop susceptible to pest attack in March-April would be about 40 per cent less than last year''s

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

Farmers in Assam, who have traditionally remained content with a single crop per year, now have reasons to go for two or more crops beginning the current rabi season

World Bank-aided pilot idea uses GPS, cellphones and remote-sensing data to try and overcome problems of existing insurance schemes

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There are thousands of strains of weed. Cracking their genetic codes may be the key to transforming pot from a budding business to a high-flying industry and a cannabis analytics lab is trying to unlock the true potential of weed. Pictures by Preston Gannaway.

Watch the jellyfish-like larvacean capture tiny floating bits of plastic, enabling the pinkie-sized critter to eliminate the plastic as waste that falls to the seafloor.

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