While average monsoon rains are ordinarily good for Indian farmers, uneven distribution this year has created new worries. Vegetables such ...

As per IMD, 47% of the 716 districts from where the weather office gets its data recorded a 'large deficiency' of rainfall till June 22 whi...

Nearly a fourth of their hybrid cotton seeds production of Kaveri next year would be through GMS technology and entire hybrid cotton seeds ...

More than 600,000 farmers are associated with Hoy Amhi Shetkari and the Facebook page has 500,000 followers.

The ministry is consulting with state governments to set up 583 seed-testing labs in major towns and 6,600 labs at the block level in rural...

In Bihar, state government officials say paddy and maize production will see a reduction due to late rains. In Madhya Pradesh, farmers are ...

The agreements were signed with Maschio-Gaspardo of Italy, Kubota of Japan, and Fiat (India) Private Limited of New Holland, an official re...

In 1979, when the Brahmaputra was in spate during the monsoon, logs of wood and hundreds of snakes came floating on the sandbar in Jorhat, ...

Outputs of cane, cotton, soya, pulses, onion and potato are going to be lower.

Farmers across the southwest belt of Haryana and northern Rajasthan have this year sown cotton on a large scale moving away from paddy, the...

Skymet’s forecast of the monsoon is 95% of normal, i.e, 1% below normal. This is much better than last year when the monsoon was 23% below ...

With a normal monsoon forecast every state has increased its estimates.

This year, with a normal monsoon forecast by the India Meteorological Department, every state has increased its estimates for area under kh...

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

Haryana government would launch a statewide campaign for seed treatment before sowing crops during Kharif, 2008.

While approvals have already been granted for field trials which are being done in the south, the company plans to undertake trials in a wi...

A well-known market for chillies before and even after partition Bhikhiwind and Kalra town in the newly formed district Tarn Taran has been...