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....

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....

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

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

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....

Since the advent of the Green Revolution popularised use of excessive irrigation and fertilisers in India in the 1960s,biodynamic farming...

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

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 the peak of June as tourists make a beeline for the interior villages of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh

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

After isolating two exotic species of farmer-friendly insect bio-agents,Assam’s State Bio-Control Laboratory is sharing them with farmers to control pests....

Growing moong with sugarcane and mango orchard has turned out to be a successful cropping pattern in summer for Bihar’s Samastipur farmers....

At a first-of-its-kind ‘scientifically-managed’ orchard at Kotgarh’s Harmony Hall Orchard,associated with the legendary Samuel Evans Stokes,around 10,000 fresh plants have replaced ageing trees. A weather station is keeping a tab on the orchard....

With private exporters locating overseas customers for bhot jolokiya,Assam has for the first time gone for a systematic cultivation of one of world’s hottest chillies....

Cautiously,but convincingly,farmers of Katewadi in Baramati district have embraced organic farming,bidding farewell to pesticides and chemical fertilisers for the sake of their own health and that of their crops.

For long,the mulberry silk produced in Jammu-Kashmir Valley was taken to faraway Western countries. As years passed by,silk looms here stopped spinning as fast...

Assam is counting on boro rice to achieve the target of 46.7 lakh-metric tonnes that it has set for the crop this year.

The honeybee population in Himachal Pradesh has come down drastically,thanks to a mite called varroa....

Farmers want to return to wheat-paddy cycle as Punjab’s ambitious bid to usher in a citrus revolution has come a cropper....

With an irrigation project in place,Hesapiri village in Jharkhand is growing even winter crops in summer months....

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.

Punjab is ready for another bumper crop of wheat but has no space to store the harvest. With the existing warehouses bursting at the seams...

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

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.