In the very first year of the 11th Five Year Plan, the agriculture sector in Uttar Pradesh has suffered a setback...

With the World Bank giving a call to shift focus on agriculture to tackle food crisis, data gleaned from Punjab's villages only add to its urgency.

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.

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

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

Though Uttarakhand has often been described as a hub of herbs, it has so far failed to tap the natural resources to its potential.

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

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

After more than a decade of hectic efforts and numerous trials, scientists at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture.

Hatal, a small village in the Tiyuni area of Uttarakhand, has witnessed a quiet revolution over the last decade....

For the past year and a half, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Y S Matta is doing organic farming on his 30 acres of land in Kalomajra village....

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

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

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

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

For a state that is battling labour shortage and has little water for irrigation, sowing paddy without flooding the fields (the method is called puddling) will surely prove to be a blessing.

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

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

The Saurashtra Kutch region, popularly known as India''s groundnut bowl, is threatening to fall off the agricultural map.

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

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.

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....

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Across the Malihabad town of Uttar Pradesh, growers are joyously looking at their blooming trees. This year has seen a record flowering and the blooms are so far not even infested with pests.

Patiasa village in Muzaffarpur district is a hive of activity where Anita Kumari keeps as busy as a bee as she spearheads a revolution of sorts.

Once renowned as among the best in the world, the one and a half century old Kangra tea might be on its way to a comeback if the government''s efforts bear fruit.

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....

Even as recent media reports caution that most fruits and vegetables are largely unfit for human consumption due to their high chemical content, pesticides continue to be used recklessly in the fields of Punjab....

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.

As rubber trees replace coconut plantations and labour becomes scarce in Kerala, neighbouring states, particularly Tamil Nadu, look set to reap benefits of the crop better

Ladsavangi village in Marathwada''s Aurangabad district has always faced a severe water scarcity, and even clashes over water, for many years.

To take the markets to farmers who now have to reach out to the buyers themselves as one of its key targets

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.

With three dams, five ponds and thousands of trees, Simon Oraon has changed lives in six Chhotanagpur villages

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.

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

While the state agriculture department introduced oil palm cultivation in 2001, Mamit rather woke up a little late.

Govt may concede to the EPFO proposal for an extra 1% interest rate hike on retirement savings.

Long winter, good snowfall makes climate favourable for a quality harvest this year.

Experts say that even if the weather turns unfavourable, the state may lose only 1 to 1.5 per cent of the crop and still be the highest wheat producing state this year

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