Even as the debate over health effects of pesticides continues to rage, a study conducted by the Punjabi University...

You could say it is a summer of education for the farmers in Gujarat. But there are no boring classes in hot, windless rooms.

On Wednesday, farmers across 150 districts in the country got details pertaining to rainfall, temperature, wind speed...

When Dayal Munda (45), a tribal farmer, first heard the name of Swarna Vasundhra, he never thought it would lead to a bumper crop.

FinanceMinister P Chidambaram on Thursday asked public sector banks to come out with a list of farmers...

The early onset of monsoon and heavy downpour have brought good news for West Bengal farmers...

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

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

With less than normal rainfall, the farms in Gujarat are grappling with shortage of both power and water for irrigation.

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.

Come December and a rich hue of orange lights up the Punjab villages from Hoshiarpur in the north to the Abohar-Ferozepur belt in the south.

Pin hopes on rainfall in February; besides rabi crop and fruit orchards, cash crops like peas, cabbage, potato, garlic and onion also damaged

Even as Punjab struggles to shrug off the tag of a state with the highest use of pesticides in the country, it is faced with another problem...

The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme has not found many takers ever though it was launched way back in 1998. A Jammu and Kashmir Government report has pointed out that till 2007-end, not more than 74,301 cards....

The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to fund farmers, especially those in the hills, to build polyhouses modern greenhouses, in other words...

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...

The G B Pant University of Agriculture at Pantnagar, along with some other premier institutions...

The strawberry crop grown over hundreds of acres in Jammu is threatened by widespread fungal attacks.

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....

With large parts of the country being declared drought-hit, the need for a safeguard against vagaries of nature is being felt like never before.

Assurances from the Centre has failed to dispel the mounting concerns of Kerala home to lush expanses of coconut, cardamom...

A late burst of rains in Madhya Pradesh has given soybean farmers a reason to smile after a long dry period that was...

In a year characterised by the aftershocks of economic slow down hitting almost every sector, apple orchard owners in Himachal Pradesh still have reason to smile.

With elections in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana around the corner here''s a look at how the prominent political parties in the states are wooing the powerful farmer lobby.

Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government...

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

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

Precision farming practice is scaling new heights in Punjab with net house farming of vegetables picking up not only amongst...

With an irrigation project in place, Hesapiri village in Jharkhand is growing even winter crops in summer months....

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....

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....

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

With the monsoon arriving late in Maharashtra, agriculture experts advised farmers to go for soybean crop instead of moong and lentil.

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

Lockdown and restrictions on migrant workforce leave crops unpicked as demand collapses

Rice research station okays 10 new varieties for farmers

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The abominable snowman, the yeti, bigfoot, and sasquatch—these long-lived myths of giant, hairy hominids depend on dropping elusive clues to stay in the popular imagination—a blurry photo here, a big footprint there—but what happens when scientists try to pin that evidence down? Online News Editor David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about the latest attempts to verify the yeti’s existence using DNA analysis of bones and hair and how this research has led to more than the debunking of a mythic creature. Sarah also interviews Alison Macintosh of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom about her investigation of bone, muscle, and behavior in prehistory female farmers—what can a new database of modern women’s bones—athletes and regular folks—tell us about the labor of women as humans took up farming?   Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Didier Descouens/CC BY SA 3.0; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

As you age, your cells divide over and over again, leading to minute changes in their genomes. New research reveals that in the lining of the esophagus, mutant cells run rampant, fighting for dominance over normal cells. But they do this without causing any detectable damage or cancer. Host Sarah Crespi talks to Phil Jones, a professor of cancer development at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, about what these genome changes can tell us about aging and cancer, and how some of the mutations might be good for you. Most Western farmers apply their pesticides using drones and machinery, but in less developed countries, organophosphate pesticides are applied by hand, resulting in myriad health issues from direct exposure to these neurotoxic chemicals. Host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Praveen Vemula, a research investigator at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in Bengaluru, India, about his latest solution—a cost-effective gel that can be applied to the skin to limit pesticide-related toxicity and mortality. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download a transcript of this episode (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image:Navid Folpour/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

The loan has been disbursed under a refinance scheme by Nabard from its own resources and was given this week. "An amount of Rs 12,767 crore has been disbursed this week to StCBs and RRBs across the country in a bid to augment their resources during the ongoing lockdown conditions for extending credit to farmers," Nabard said.

AIKSCC flags impact of lockdown on procurement, sales

Some farmers told ANI that they are facing problems as there is shortage of labour and they are not able to send their produce to the market due to the lack of transport facilities

Normally, farmers anticipate a huge bump in demand during the February-May season due to weddings and other such occasions

Non-availability of workers owing to the lockdown is causing delay in cutting the canes