Growing silently since early 1980s, small gardens have now come to contribute over 20 per cent to the total tea output of Assam

Orchards in hill state major consumers of vermicompost made in Punjab, a state which still banks on chemicals.

No freight subsidy yet for transporting crop to other states.

SC: 'Bring in more transparency, open CVC to non civil servants too''.

In a year''s time, summer moong''s acreage has risen to one lakh hectares

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

While sowing of paddy will begin around June 10, cotton sowing started around April 15

If successful, it would save paddy growers from depending on erratic monsoon and rapidly depleting ground water.

Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, is for the past one year, trying to find a way to control the gall disease that has affected almost 50 per cent of the eucalyptus trees.

Horticulture department has for the first time sown the crop on three farms, cooperative society procured 1,200 quintals of turmeric seeds from Maharashtra this season.

Two consecutive years of drought in the state had hit kharif crops paddy, millet and oilseeds

K R Jayan is leading a movement aimed at food security and environmental conservation. And at the centre of this revolution is the humble jackfruit

To explore markets elsewhere in the country and abroad for its saffron, basmati rice and rajmash among various other agricultural produce, the Jammu-Kashmir government is adopting organic farming in a systematic manner

State accounts for nearly 40% of total area under certified organic farming in India.

Prices too low, middlemen eating up profits, say farmers; govt blames it on glut

Having formed a help society to start group farming and bring down costs, farmers in Punjab''s Ferozepur villages now want to process and sell their farm produces

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

Allocates Rs 30 cr for compensation Rs 2 lakh per family; but state-sponsored report of 3 universities that studied suicide-hit districts pegs the number of affected families at over 6,500

After celebrating a record wheat production, Punjab is lagging behind in paddy cultivation. According to the Department of Agriculture, the deficit is 33 per cent as of now almost two lakh hectares less than last year

Long winter, hotter summer and lack of rain take a toll on the fruit

Govt efforts get a boost with NABARD deciding to increase credit for dairy sector

Their numbers had dropped but demand for milk and meat has stayed high as ever. Now, goat rearing picks up again

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

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

To break monopoly of state-run markets, encourage direct procurement

Pictures released by NASA some months ago, showing large-scale smoke emerging from the fields of Punjab due to burning of straw

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

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

Jammu and Kashmir''s efforts to promote pisciculture as a means of employment are gradually drawing in young Kashmiris.

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

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

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.

At least 21 people people were injured following a 6.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan's northwestern coast overnight and caused a slight tsunami, officials announced on Wednesday.

Australias Attorney General (AG) on Wednesday declared that he would be reluctant to authorise the prosecution of journalists after federal police raids earlier in June.

Former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has sought the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) permission to play in foreign T20 leagues, following his retirement from international cricket last week.

At least 26 people were injured after an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck Japan's northwestern region, causing landslides and power outages in some areas, authorities said on Wednesday.

Oil traded at a negative price on a one-month West Texas Intermediate futures contract, but it didn't for successive months' futures contracts

The earnings were better than what most of the analysts had expected. Kotak Securities, for instance, estimated the private lender to log net loss at Rs 4,404.4 crore in the quarter under review

The first day impact has been more on the pharma especially in the wake of 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd.'s facility in Ahmedabad testing positive for COVID-19

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