India can boost nutrition security, cut import dependence, and build a global smart protein industry by scaling climate-resilient indigenou...

India has released 2,996 climate-resilient crop varieties from 2014 to 2025. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research led this effort. C...

India is leading the global fight against climate challenges. Agriculture production reached 357 million tonnes in 2024-25. Jammu and Kashm...

India's rural economy is faced with potential challenges. A weaker monsoon and rising farm costs from the Iran war could impact growth this...

India's wheat output for the 2025-26 crop year is stable. The agriculture ministry assures resilience despite unseasonal rains and hailstor...

India faces a strong El Niño, threatening below-normal rainfall and impacting agriculture. While rural-linked sectors like two-wheelers and...

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

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

The government aims to bring 25% of the kharif paddy area under climate-resilient seeds to combat climate change's impact. Currently, paddy...

Satveer Singh's family relies on a sack of wheat flour to stave off hunger. They barely manage, aided by government rations, despite irregu...

Climate change impacts - including harsher heat, drought and floods - pose a major emerging threat to food security in India and elsewhere,...

One of the reasons behind Pakistan still being dependent on imports to meet domestic requirements is its failure to develop indigenous vari...

On Monday, Sharad Pawar, founder of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), responded to his nephew Ajit Pawar's recent comments about the 19...

The Indian government aims to bring 60% of the total wheat area under climate-resistant varieties for the upcoming rabi sowing season, due ...

New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS/Mongabay) It took the best scientific minds from 20 nations, including India, to scale what is considered as the "M...

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

Researchers are aiming to have first set of climate-resilient varieties in five years, a USAID statement said.