India’s agricultural progress owes much to Dr. Janaki Ammal, a pioneering botanist whose work transformed the country’s sugarcane industry....

While AI's energy consumption raises climate concerns, it also offers solutions. AI optimizes transportation, reducing fuel use in vehicles...

FRPs for sugarcane are typically fixed to ensure a guaranteed price to sugarcane growers and thus it does not take into account whether sug...

Hemaprabha is the first woman director of the 111-year-old institution and at present, 'Co' (Coimbatore) varieties developed at the institu...

S. Thangasamy, an elderly man, is a Kadar tribe member. He is on a mission to educate the tribal communities about their rights. Here’s how...

World sugar prices are under pressure as India will begin export of its surplus sugar production. Raw sugar futures have fallen below 10 ce...

Ragi (finger millet), the staple diet food of southern Karnataka was down from 7.88 lakh hectares in 2010-11 to 6.46 lakh hectares in 2012-...

The move is significant considering the govt is treading cautiously on the path of GM crop amid strong opposition from environmentalists.

The project will identify genetic markers for cane yield, sugar content, drought tolerance and red rot resistance, in sugarcane varieties.

The sett (seed material) treatment device was developed in collaboration with the Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering's regional ...

There will be serious shortage of sugarcane seeds in the next season in Tamil Nadu, following erratic monsoon and deficit rain for last thr...

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

Type II category energy canes were specifically bred for high biomass yield, high fibre, low sucrose, exclusively used for energy generatio...

BARC will set up three multi-product radiation processing technology demonstration plants for high yielding varieties of basmati and other ...

Sure, the rains are picking up, but droughts will strike again. Government can boost incomes of farm help to enable them to face a drought ...

Driven by the urge to do something different or to earn higher returns, a new breed of farmers is cultivating crops not usually grown in th...

More than 13 million farmers now plant biotech crops on 125 million hectares worldwide. India is the world’s fourth-largest grower of GM co...