With increasing awareness of healthy diets and nutritional security gaining as much focus as food security,Indian researchers are now growing...

It was not the Congress that had defeated the BJP in the 1998 Assembly elections in four states,it was the onion. The vegetable remains as politically potent.

For a state that is battling labour shortage and has little water for irrigation,sowing paddy without flooding the fields (the method is called puddling) will surely prove to be a blessing.

Controlling this pest is one of the biggest challenges faced by the agriculture scientists of the country for the past four years. Its impact on crops,mainly cotton,has been devastating...

The Himachal apples will not taste as they used to do in the best days of their harvests.

Soaring potato prices have returned to haunt farmers and average consumers this summer again.

They can be seen vying for attention in the local markets,but consumers eye them warily with sellers barely being able to persuade them to change their preference.

The National Botanical Research Institute,Lucknow,is working to develop transgenic varieties of mangoes and bananas...

Multiplicity of authorities with almost no coordination,absence of a symbiotic relation among beneficiaries,NGOs and private market players...

Tomato and capsicum crops grown in the mid-hills of the state are increasingly being lost to collar rot and leaf blight diseases.

The strawberry crop grown over hundreds of acres in Jammu is threatened by widespread fungal attacks.

Farmers growing cotton have reason to cheer. They will not have to worry about mealybugs which severely damage the crop even before flowering.

The G B Pant University of Agriculture at Pantnagar,along with some other premier institutions...

When Ghulam Ahmad Khan,a part time farmer,decided to turn his paddy field into a strawberry plantation rather than the customary apple orchard.

Come litchi season this summer,the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would be ready with the customary packets of the fruit...

Direct Seeded Rice,on which successful experiments were carried out in UP last season,is ready for large-scale cultivation

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat,which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

While varieties like Rajapuri haven’t made it to the Mumbai markets at all,others like Badami and Lalbaug have been hit by a peculiar lack of demand

While a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield,all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot.

Even as the jury is still out on whether genetically modified crops affect biodiversity and lack nutritive value,two districts of Gujarat...

Even though the weather and soil conditions here can seldom be compared,the yield seems to have transcended those boundaries.

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...

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....

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