For the past year and a half,Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Y S Matta is doing organic farming on his 30 acres of land in Kalomajra village....

Incessant rains in Kashmir have resulted in a dip in day temperatures — something which will not augur well for fruit trees.

Hatal,a small village in the Tiyuni area of Uttarakhand,has witnessed a quiet revolution over the last decade....

Call it the paradox of timing — clear skies when the farmers looked up for rains and it poured when they wanted the sun....

Satnam Singh Mann and his group of dairy farmers are easily fielding a volley of questions from management students at Punjab Agricultural University.

As the tulip garden by the banks of the Dal Lake is thrown open to the public,the authorities are skeptic about how long the breathtaking view of the flowers in full glory would last.

The current spell of rainfall and snow in the upper and middle hills of Himachal Pradesh may translate into some respite for farmers and orchardists...

Sitaram Yadav,a farmer based in Gohta village of Mau district in eastern Uttar Pradesh,gives a thumbs up to the flood-tolerant Swarna Sub-1 rice variety.

An audit scrutiny by the Comptroller and Auditor General has indicted the J-K Government for neglecting the Agriculture and Allied sector...

A warm winter,overflowing stocks and a rather bleak possibility of private purchase amid falling global prices,all’s not well with Punjab’s wheat crop this year.

Pune-Based entrepreneur Rajiv Devkar seems to have hit the jackpot in his quest to preserve mangoes without the use of cold storage facilities.

Four farmer communities from different parts of the country were recently felicitated by the Government for their efforts at preserving...

The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to fund farmers,especially those in the hills,to build polyhouses— modern greenhouses,in other words...

The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme has not found many takers ever though it was launched way back in 1998. A Jammu and Kashmir Government report has pointed out that till 2007-end,not more than 74,301 cards....

Scientists at Jammu and Kashmir’s agriculture university claim to have worked out the perfect script to make India one among world’s top walnut producers....

They slogged to make it to prestigious engineering colleges of the country. Only to return to the farms in their villages and try their hand at something.....

Even as Punjab struggles to shrug off the tag of a state with the highest use of pesticides in the country,it is faced with another problem...

The exhaustive Dictionary of Indian Plant Gums,Resins,Dyes & Related Products by Dr M I H Farooqi is a unique effort...

After more than a decade of hectic efforts and numerous trials,scientists at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture.

Pin hopes on rainfall in February; besides rabi crop and fruit orchards,cash crops like peas,cabbage,potato,garlic and onion also damaged

How about repaying a loan in kind? This is exactly what a Kisan Bank set up in Dehradun intends to do...

Nearly 10,000 farmers in Bundelkhand,Azamgarh and Mau in UP growing tulsi for international markets

Just when Kashmir’s walnut kernel had begun doing brisk business in the international markets,recession hit and its rates tumbled,resulting in heavy losses to the growers,traders and exporters alike...

It is said to surpass all qualities of basmati except the length of the latter. But surprisingly,Kalanamak,a fragrant variety of rice and named thus as its husk is black,isn’t popular among farmers....