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

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

At Kharar in Punjab,a hi-tech greenhouse covering an acre has the capacity to produce up to 35 lakh whole-root seedlings of fruits and vegetables. An Israeli agriculture specialist and a Delhi-based entrepreneur are behind it

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

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

With the help of technology and a Taiwanese variety of seed,Punjab’s maiden attempt at commercial cultivation of papaya is bearing fruit.

Poultry farmers in the remote hills of Manipur have found two new birds — Australian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and turkey.

Ganesh Jadhav,like many other farmers at Vavna and Sonari villages in drought-prone Marathwada’s Phulambri tehsil.

Uttarakhand farmers strike gold by cultivating amaranth — a red cereal crop rich in vitamins

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

Stop indiscriminate use of pesticide on basmati,antibiotics on bees: Exporters to farmers,beekeepers

Assam has drawn up an ambitious plan to step up its production of spices in the current financial year.

Forget the French wine,you can soon have a taste of our very own Punjabi wine.

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

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

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.

With no funds coming under the Intensive Cotton Development Programme and a Centre-state blame-game on in full swing,cotton farmers in Punjab are again left on their own to struggle against their fate — and pests

Always straddled with overflowing stocks,‘the Granary of India’ is now all set to have huge grainhouses. Of the total capacity of 127 lakh MT storage space to be created in the country,71.25 lakh MT will come up in Punjab alone....

In early April this year,when boro (summer) paddy covering a record 3.25 lakh hectares was just beginning to flower....

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....

Shortage of farm labour has pushed the Department of Agriculture in Punjab to launch a multi-pronged mechanisation programme for its farmers....

Jagdish Sharma,a marginal maize farmer in Katihar,committed suicide last month....

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 bumper apple crop in Himachal Pradesh this year has failed to translate into good news for growers yet again. Drought and hail have damaged the fruits....