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

If the Congress-led government returns to power, it will help resume exports of wheat and rice and continue existing policies but if it needs the support of its Leftist allies....

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...

When he would come home from his modest half-acre farm after sundown, Ramesh Pradhan wouldn''t go near his children and wife until he had bathed and changed his clothes.

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....

Nearly 400 households in Palakkad municipal area in Kerala enjoy a special relationship with their morning cup of tea....

India''s agrarian economy has long been plagued by the lack of storage, marketing and processing facilities....

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....

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....

According to experts, his produce is effective in gastrointestinal problems and tests show rich curcumin content. Besides, it gives him far higher returns than traditional paddy-wheat crop

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

New norms to bring in safety regulations at each link of the food chain

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

Tea mosquito bug is the most serious pest of cashew plantation.

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

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

SKUAST experts teach basics of organic farming to more than 200 farmers, encourage them to take it up on a larger scale

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.

30 bighas to be identified in each of the 126 Assembly constituencies; Rs 20 cr earmarked

World Economic Forum has chosen the state for its New Agriculture Initiative

Struggling with a severe drought-like situation, Maharashtra has a group of smiling farmers who had built farm ponds for irrigation

With farm workers abandoning the climbing job, Coconut Development Board has launched a trained army of climbers, calling them 'friends of coconut tree''

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

US-returned businessman sets up modern dairy farm, shares equipment and know-how with locals

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

Tractor sales pick up; govt promotes use of implements, launches schemes for machines on rent and at subsidy

In Damla, he began cultivating on his ancestral property of two acres and found it was his true calling.

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

Punjab farmers warm up to agro-forestry, which not only pays well but also helps drive govt''s green mission.

On the outskirts of Srinagar city, sprawling residential colonies have cropped up over the years.

Over the past decade, the industry has seen a rapid rise, opening a new window for jobs and livelihood.

'Biggest ever'' agri expo has Rs 45 cr budget, 50-acre stage, 65,000 farmers a day for 5 days.

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

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

Bob Evans Farms, Inc., a Xenia, Ohio, establishment, is recalling approximately 42,246 pounds of pork sausage link products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically pieces of clear hard plastic.