Kashmir''s world-acclaimed saffron and its vast fields are fast dwindling, courtesy the poisonous dust emanating from nearby cement plants.

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

While Punjab''s Malwa belt is witnessing rising incidence of cancer - largely due to addiction to alcohol and tobacco...

Precision farming is set to invade Indian farms. IIM Calcutta and the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidalaya...

One new variety each of three vegetables - bittergourd, bottlegourd and vegetable pea developed by the scientists of G B Pant University of Agriculture...

Just when Valley growers were celebrating the bumper fruit crop and the beginning of cross LoC trade, early snowfall in Kashmir this winter ruined their party.

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

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...

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.

In an attempt to combat the problem of shrinking farm labour availability, the worse of which is felt during the paddy season...

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...

Multiplicity of authorities with almost no coordination, absence of a symbiotic relation among beneficiaries, NGOs and private market players...

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.

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.

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.

The gentle mountain slopes in this fascinatingly beautiful place at once catch the attention not merely for their idyllic setting and extremely hospitable people....

While other states are giving out distress signals of foodgrain scarcity, triggered by drought and flood fury, Punjab is not only looking at a good harvest but also hoping to gain from this adversity....

Around this time of the year, bright yellow flowers carpet the fields in scores of villages in Bihar's Vaishali district.

After Amritsar successfully began cultivating early crops of vegetables using tunnel technology a few years ago, Jalandhar, too, has decided to follow suit....

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

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

The fate of the birthplace of famous Dashehari variety of mango, the Dashehari village, is hanging in a balance.

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

Demand of flowers in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, the price of Himachal apples in Delhi markets, a new subsidy scheme for polyhouses, or new varieties of maize developed at a research centre....

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Agency (NREGA) scheme meant to provide minimum employment of 100 days per year has had in many places a ripple effect labour shortage leading to farm mechanisation....

Rain is something tribals living in the cold deserts of Spiti Himachal''s fascinating mountainous region have seldom experienced.

While North India is reeling under heavy rainfall, for the state''s farmers it has brought cheer

Fruit production in Jammu and Kashmir has touched 20 lakh metric tonnes this season an all time high thanks to bumper apple crop.

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

The Bt gene gave cotton farmers freedom from bollworm. Now the weedicide-resistant gene is likely to relieve them of weeds as well.

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

Grown as a wild bush in Ladakh, seabuck thorn is slowly bringing prosperity in the mountainous region.

Even as India and Pakistan deliberate on a 'corridor'' for Sikh pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara.

Aeroponics reportedly ensures five to six times more production of potato minitubers as compared to traditional tissue culture system; the institute has started a commercial unit in Modipuram, UP.

Private-public business model aims to make saline water in south-west Punjab useful for fish farming, biogas, dairy farms and more.

Alphonsos will not be seen in the market after mid-May. Their produce has anyway been very low and prices steep

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

A doctor in the Valley gave up a career in medicine to cultivate lavender. Eight years on, she has won a state award with many following in her footsteps

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to cultivate jatropha to boost farmers'' income and produce bio-diesel

Three anti-hail guns, part of a Rs 27-cr pilot project , could protect only those areas where they were installed. One gun covers between 80 and 100 hectares

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

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

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.

Even as monsoon is late by a month and less than normal, the state is hopeful of a record yield of Sali variety.

With subsidy from govt, sugar factories have placed orders for harvesters from abroad.

Kinnows a citrus fruit considered a half-brother of orange are set to be costlier this season with Punjab staring at a poor yield of the fruit.

The state was chosen for the India-UK study as it is most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change

Besides, the solvent extraction technology is also not environment-friendly.