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

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.

Mango growers of Marathwada region fear more than 50 per cent losses this season.

Group farming: Beginning with a sheep breeding project,a self-help group of 15 women at a small village in Aurangabad have expanded to grow vegetables,turmeric and ginger on around 10 acres of land.

Gold medalist sets up farmers’ club in Muzaffarpur,motivates villagers to cultivate land they had left untouched for fear of Maoists.

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

A lone farmer rids a vast 200 acres of farm land of all pests with the use of ancient Indian science of Ayurveda.

Twenty-eight villages in Maharashtra,21 of them in Vidarbha,have worked their way to build,operate and own minor irrigation projects.

No freight subsidy yet for transporting crop to other states.

With American cotton dominating India’s white fields for long,agriculturists are now set to cultivate desi varieties.

With a negative farm growth in 2009-10,will Punjab meet the 11th Five Year Plan’s projection of 2.4 pc.

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

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

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

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

Pineapple farmers are in expansion mode in Kerala.

Unprecedented prices to ensure Punjab farmers junk paddy,embrace cotton in coming season

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will now prepare a list of do’s and don’ts for farmers.

BAMU in Aurangabad would have notched a top slot.

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

Small farmers badly hit though overall rice output won’t diminish owing to bumper crop in major growing areas.

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

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

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.