Paddy sowing during this kharif season has seen a significant increase of 12 per cent, reaching 364.80 lakh hectares compared to last year'...

Gujarat's Rabi crop sowing has exceeded 47.55 lakh hectares, surpassing the three-year average, driven by favorable rains and high prices. ...

A mobile application of the digital crop survey and relevant web applications will be used by nodal officials of states to gather data on c...

Senior BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai has called on the Karnataka government to declare an “agriculture drought” amid reports that sowing has ...

Rajasthan is likely to have bumper kharif crop production as the sowing was done in 144 lakh hectare area so far as against a target of 157...

Production of foodgrains (comprising rice, wheat, pulses and coarse cereals) in 2013-14 crop year (July-June) stood at 264.77 million tonne...

"Wheat's sowing area has shown slight improvement and is at 161.57 lakh hectares as compared to last year's 159.11 lakh hectares," official...

The fall in production of rice and oilseeds pulled down the growth in the agriculture sector to 2.9 per cent.

Winter staple wheat has been sown in nearly 10 lakh hectares (one million ha) more this seaon upto October 1, when sowing season began, but...

The wheat sowing has increased in most parts of Rajasthan including Ganganagar, Hanumangarh, Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Tonk districts.

Untimely winter rains are eliciting mixed responses from Rajasthan farmers. While it’s proving to be a major bottleneck in wheat and barley...

Even as a good soya and groundnut harvest is putting pressure on the rabi oilseed, low water requirement and favourable weather conditions ...

Good rains in Rajasthan have raised the hopes of a better guar crop this season after last year’s dismal output due to a weak monsoon.

The country has received 14% less rains than the long-period average (LPA) till Thursday since the beginning of the monsoon season on June ...

Soaring temperatures across Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan have burnt germinating cotton seedlings, signalling a shortfall in output this se...

Farmers are waiting for the rains to sow jowar, bajra, maize, groundnut & pulses. As on June 15 sowing has been done on 6% of the normal kh...

With the actual wheat production in 2007-08 likely to fall short of the initial estimate of 75.53 million tonnes, triggering fears of the p...