Precision farming practice is scaling new heights in Punjab with net house farming of vegetables picking up not only amongst...

Just when the Indian strawberry had begun going places,its journey looks all set to be cut short. Mahabaleshwar,the country’s strawberry capital,is unlikely to export the fruit this year.

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.

Asia’s largest tulip garden,which could also become the world’s largest,is feeling the heat of global warming and the changing weather pattern of the Valley.

The diversification stride in the country’s granary state has reached banana groves. The baby step was taken in 2005 in a small village...

At Ratu village in Ranchi district,farmers use buckets to pull water from wells to irrigate their fields. Repeating the work in...

You’ll soon be in no hurry to use the tomatoes in your kitchen before they go mushy.

Slowdown,26/11 terror attacks and erratic excise duty structure are taking a toll on Maharashtra’s fledgling wine industry.

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

Mulberry tea,which is being relished in some parts of the world,is set to reach our teapots soon. Scientists at Jammu...

This rain-shadow village in Kerala’s Palakkad district made history when it forced soft drink giant Coca Cola to cork its bottling plant for excessive exploitation of ground water....

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

GUAVA,called the poor man’s apple,is the sixth most cultivated fruit in India. But the wilt disease has stagnated its yield over the years....

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

Shajarana village,located some 15 km from Fazilka,is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture.

It pays to go Dutch. Ask Rasila Kothari,52,who took to commercial cultivation of Dutch roses in Chandwe village,near Ranchi in Jharkhand.

For the first time,Valley’s purple swathes of centuries-old saffron fields found a place in Kashmir’s tourism map when a state-sponsored...

What was once an arid land,now wears a bright orange hue. From Punjab’s belt bordering Rajasthan — Abohar in Ferozepur,Muktsar and Bhatinda...

She is possibly the most expensive baby in the country today and certainly among the most pampered.

Since the seeds were first sown in their lands four years ago,farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district have been patiently waiting each season for wonders to happen.

Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge...

At first glance,the lush green fields barely convince that this is one of the dry regions of Andhra Pradesh.

It prided itself for being the land of orchards. This year,however,many in Karnikhera village in the border district of Ferozepur in Punjab...

Banana grower Adhinath Barve of Junnar tehsil in Pune district is expecting to double his exports when he begins harvesting his three-acre plantation in February next year.