Pearl spot fish or Karimeen,favoured by tourists and declared state fish by Kerala govtlast year,is facing extinction. Cage culture can help check the trend

SKUAST experts teach basics of organic farming to more than 200 farmers,encourage them to take it up on a larger scale

Besides,the solvent extraction technology is also not environment-friendly.

With govt doling out lavish incentives,a total of 72 wineries came up in Maharashtra by 2008. Three years on,around 30 have shut shop with production exceeding demand

The state was chosen for the India-UK study as it is most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change

Two consecutive years of drought in the state had hit kharif crops — paddy,millet and oilseeds

A community radio service at Resode taluka of Maharashtra’s Washim dist is disseminating information on latest farming technologies

Central Institute for Cotton Research,Nagpur,is looking at partnering with farmers and absorbent cotton manufacturers to promote organic desi cotton as raw material

At Farm Progress Show in the US,forecast of over 20 gene traits in corn,20 years from now.

Kinnows— a citrus fruit considered a half-brother of orange — are set to be costlier this season with Punjab staring at a poor yield of the fruit.

As the Coconut Development Board shifts its focus from Kerala to Assam,the state aspires to lead the country in commercial cultivation of coconuts.

Horticulture department has for the first time sown the crop on three farms,cooperative society procured 1,200 quintals of turmeric seeds from Maharashtra this season.

With subsidy from govt,sugar factories have placed orders for harvesters from abroad.

In Arunachal’s Lower Dibang Valley,the fruit slips into the hands of middlemen in the stage of flowering itself in the absence of market linkages and storage facilities.

Even as monsoon is late by a month and less than normal,the state is hopeful of a record yield of Sali variety.

Forest Research Institute,Dehradun,is for the past one year,trying to find a way to control the gall disease that has affected almost 50 per cent of the eucalyptus trees.

With the monsoon arriving late in Maharashtra,agriculture experts advised farmers to go for soybean crop instead of moong and lentil.

While the crop’s acreage this season is highest ever in the country,the yield will now depend on weather conditions.

Upper Assam’s Singpho tribe will soon enjoy the exclusive right for commercial production as well as cultural promotion of two traditional varieties of rice.

Pesticide residue,marketing bottlenecks likely to lead to a decline in exports.

But low procurement,no publicity result in marginal benefits for tribals.

Tea mosquito bug is the most serious pest of cashew plantation.

ICAR’s Krishi Vigyan Kendras are helping farmers of Vidarbha region’s Gondia district turn lac cultivation into a profitable venture

Basmati acreage likely to be up again this year but it is the slender rice variety,sharbati,that is luring farmers in Punjab and Haryana more