India's newly-launched Durum wheat variety, Pusa Gehun Gaurav, offers versatile benefits, from making soft chapatis to high-quality pasta. ...

This blunt instrument of banning Pusa-44 to deal with air pollution, a multifaceted problem, may fail to deliver results. Instead, it is ce...

India's global market share in basmati rice is declining due to the government's decision to set a minimum export price of $1,200 per tonne...

Stubble burning by farmers in Punjab and other parts significantly contributes to air pollution in north India during winters.

In a sign of the strength of India's public research institutions, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) released seven new varieti...

Basmati growers are in for a shock as popular aromatic rice varieties like PUSA 1121 are fetching "far lower" prices than what they got las...

The country needs to develop more GM crops to cut down on the large imports of pulses, vegetables and edible oils and should not be swayed ...

Punjab and Haryana governments seek to protect farmers from price fluctuations

Pakistan's best efforts at knocking Indian basmati off its perch in the global market may not be enough from the rice variety making the 2-...

Basmati rice exports are likely to post growth of nearly 40% in the fiscal year ended March 2009 with increased pick up from Iran and Iraq ...

Prices of Pusa 1121 variety, latest entrant into elite basmati club, have shot up by about 40% in domestic market in past 10 days on increa...

Large scale farming of pusa 1121, the latest entrant on the list of basmati varieties, in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, may cause more rese...

The Centre on Monday recognised rice variety Pusa 1121 as a basmati. With this, India has significantly diluted the identity of basmati as ...

Rice exporters, demanding basmati status for the evolved variety Pusa 1121, may have to wait for a year as the government is still conducti...

Three million more tonnes of rice output in 2007-08 (June to May crop year) may not be enough to reassure the government about food securit...

Lab-produced Pusa 1121 variety to get coveted tag as Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's men prevail over the commerce ministry.

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana are paying the price for ban on exports of non-basmati rice as rates of this crop have dropped by Rs 200-250 ...