40,000 commission agents on warpath in Punjab against direct pay to farmers.

Imported power tillers,mini-tractors to mechanise hill farming in Himachal Pradesh

As govt works on a tie-up,Orissa farmers to directly sell their produce to a supermarket chain

With an alternative market in place,farmers in this Kerala village now risk growing vegetables they did not produce earlier and are reaping benefits

As traders pass off Dasheharis,Langra and Gulab Khas of the state as those from UP and Bihar,the Orissa horticulture dept draws post-harvest management and intelligent marketing plans

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

State accounts for nearly 40% of total area under certified organic farming in India.

Madhya Pradesh government says it is set to clock a 10 per cent farm growth this time — thanks to both state and Central schemes,steps like bonus over and above the MSP,and its agriculture becoming resilient to the vagaries of nature

To explore markets elsewhere in the country and abroad for its saffron,basmati rice and rajmash among various other agricultural produce,the Jammu-Kashmir government is adopting organic farming in a systematic manner

With the average wholesale onion price crashing to Rs 3-4 per kg across the country,the growers in Maharashtra and elsewhere have got little or no returns

Meghalaya is not only the abode of the clouds but also home to one of the tastiest and best oranges in the country

The air is cool and dry in the hills of Himachal Pradesh.

With several mills closing down and sugarcane crop unable to fetch good price,farmers of Champaran’s sugar belt have started cultivating turmeric

Farmers told crop will be procured at the MSP from only those who register in advance

Decent rainfall,coupled with contract farming and govt policies,boosts wine production

The lower and mid hill belt of Himachal are giving up terrace farming to grow high-yielding and exotic cash crops in polyhouses

Farmers in Assam,who have traditionally remained content with a single crop per year,now have reasons to go for two or more crops beginning the current rabi season

Central Institute for Cotton Research has come up with high-density plantation system for Maharashtra and MP

K R Jayan is leading a movement aimed at food security and environmental conservation. And at the centre of this revolution is the humble jackfruit

As the clamour for a hike in cotton support price grows shriller,a study has found that cost of its production in backward regions like Vidarbha has gone up by 42 per cent

The potato seeds,said scientists,will reduce J-K’s dependence on other states.

While the Punjab government has scrapped Reliance-proposed ambitious ‘Farm to Fork’ project,some 325 farmers of a backward district in the state have been able to achieve what the project envisaged. Hoshiarpur farmers have opened the first-of-its-kind retail shops — where they handle production,promotion and sale of their produce themselves — with no support from the […]

While retail prices of milk in Maharashtra have been hiked thrice in less than a year,the state govt is struggling to keep dairy farmers in business

Prolonged monsoon and high temperature led to delay in planting of the fruit saplings in Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani