Traditionally a hub of wheat and paddy crops,the state is now exporting baby corn to the UK and other European countries in a big way

Indian researchers,along with those from 13 other countries have sequenced the genome of the tomato and its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium

The Centre has sanctioned a special irrigation scheme worth Rs 3,250 crore aimed to meet a new micro-irrigation target of 1,43,500 hectares in the Vidarbha region still coping with reports of farmer suicides

In Himachal Pradesh,Kangra alone has 30,000 farmers engaged in bee-keeping,producing 1,200 MT honey annually if unfavourable weather conditions don’t play spoilsport

Having formed a help society to start group farming and bring down costs,farmers in Punjab’s Ferozepur villages now want to process and sell their farm produces

Under an ICAR project,NRCM in Nagaland is working on increasing population of mithuns — a milch animal referred to as the ‘ship of the highland’ or ‘cattle of the mountains’ — through embryo transfer technology and has recently seen its first success

To be developed at an estimated cost of Rs 76 lakh in about 2,056 square metres of land,the greenhouse is expected to be completed by July this year.

Punjab’s fields,mills and godowns are brimming with 172 lakh tonnes of wheat,rice,paddy. The wheat harvest is set to cross a record 120 lakh tonnes. One-third of it,worth hundreds of crores,will be stored unscientifically

With farm workers abandoning the climbing job,Coconut Development Board has launched a trained army of climbers,calling them ‘friends of coconut tree’

Struggling with a severe drought-like situation,Maharashtra has a group of smiling farmers who had built farm ponds for irrigation

World Economic Forum has chosen the state for its New Agriculture Initiative

Crop loss figure already stands at Rs 200 cr

Successful installation of a solar pumpset in Nitish Kumar’s village shows way to farmers to look for cost-effective irrigation

From cotton and soyabean in rainfed conditions,farmers in Wardha district have taken a bold shift towards shade-net and poly-house farming,and are reaping benefits

MP hopes to procure 7.4 mn MT wheat this season,three times the target needed to meet its PDS requirement

30 bighas to be identified in each of the 126 Assembly constituencies; Rs 20 cr earmarked

World Bank-aided pilot idea uses GPS,cellphones and remote-sensing data to try and overcome problems of existing insurance schemes

Prices too low,middlemen eating up profits,say farmers; govt blames it on glut

Over 12 years after a devastating cyclone claimed its coconut forest,horticulture dept programme aims to make Orissa one of the top three states in terms of coconut productivity and area under plantation

BARC technology to considerably increase shelf life of the highly perishable fruit

Punjab’s Citrus Estates help small farmers earn big by providing latest machinery and technical expertise

ARI has developed a high-yielding variety,to seek Centre’s permission to release it to farmers

Fighting climate change,state’s new mantra is diversification — plum,kiwi,cherry,apricot,peach,pomegranate and strawberry being grown in the upper hills while citrus fruits and mangoes are options for the lower hills

Fighting odds of floods,small landholdings and depleting agricultural land,state plans to introduce high-yielding,submergence-tolerant paddy varieties,double-cropping