Bayer and Solynta have agreed to collaborate on distributing true potato seeds in Indian and Kenyan markets, marking Bayer's entry into the...

Patit Paban De, senior member of the West Bengal Cold Storage Association, said there will be an estimated 10 per cent lower production of ...

In 2011, Current Science magazine analysed a ramkand mool sample from a temple in Kolhapur. They found an 89 per cent overlap with Agave si...

A recent report by Crisil highlights that volatility in vegetable prices has increased in the past four years due to demand-supply imbalanc...

Born in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu on August 7, 1925, Swaminathan played a significant role in changing the trajectory of the agriculture sec...

Sowing of potatoes usually begins in November, while the crop is harvested the following January. Uttar Pradesh, the largest producer of th...

Potato arrivals have picked up in January and brought drown prices by Rs 3-6 per kg. In the ongoing season, rainfall had impacted the sowin...

Many of India's indigenous varieties had slowly disappeared with the rise of hybrid seeds.

India moved to a GST regime on July 1 after the Council fixed over 1,200 products in four tax slabs of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent.

Developments on this front in the past three days show how the government is inclined to make GM a success story in India.

Farmers from Assam will get lesson of Chinese agricultural success when a delegation of Chinese farmers will visit the state in January nex...

Punjab Agri University has entered into an agreement with Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) to intensify research on potato improvem...

Banerjee's pro-people stand is affecting potato seed farmers in Punjab adversely. Farmers fear the West Bengal government will slash potato...

Brinjal, perhaps the most popular vegetable in kitchens in the country after potato, and one vegetable in which India is estimated to have ...

India became the fourth largest adopter of biotech crop in the world, displacing Canada, in 2008 and planting Bt cotton on 7.6 million hect...

Kashmir valley is all set to achieve bumper vegetable crop of nine lakh metric tonnes this season on account of timely rainfall and introdu...

Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) on Thursday said Rs 347 crore has been sought from the Union government for promoting the c...