ICAR is advancing conservation agriculture and climate-resilient wheat research, focusing on water-use efficiency, farmer incomes, and nutr...

India's wheat output is poised to break last year's record, with Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan anticipating a bumper harvest. ...

More than 60 per cent of wheat area planted during the rabi season is under climate-resilient varieties, according to the government. The I...

Recent rains have not impacted wheat and other rabi crops, with harvesting progressing smoothly. The IMD predicts continued rain and hailst...

The rains caused a lack of lustre in the new crop, although there has not been a significant loss of yield, said S Pramod Kumar, CEO, Sunil...

"The scientists of ICAR have issued the advisory of giving light irrigation to modulate the crop canopy temperature favourably as and when ...

It said in case of a sudden rise in temperature, farmers should use light irrigation and spray potassium on the wheat plant to reduce the d...

According to the minister, the ICAR is also implementing projects like 'Sustainable Approaches for Nutritional Security' and 'Nutritional S...

ICAR has made plans to develop varieties of fruits and vegetables that can be easily processed by the industry and reduce wastage.

He also said the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is hastening research on developing new wheat varieties to cope with high t...

"All other partners of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium including India target to complete the sequencing in the next t...

ICAR said that from last few years scientists have been developing seeds that are drought and climate resilient to meet these challenges.

NDTV Science Editor Pallava Bagla received 'ICAR Chaudhary Charan Singh Award' for excellence in agriculture reporting for 2013 from PM

“If farmers don’t go for quick drainage of water from their farms it can lead to drying of crops and reduce production drastically,” said a...

The productivity of staple grain wheat could decline by upto 18% by 2020 due to adverse impact of climate change which is causing rise in t...

Although no major impact has been observed on wheat production due to global warming in India in the recent past, the government has taken ...

Indian Council for Agricultural Research has signed an MoU with Sipani Agricultural (Krishi) Research Farm, a Mandsaur-based private compan...