The nationwide lockdown has already hit the availability of labour in the ongoing wheat marketing season, and it is now set to affect sowin...

To produce a kilogramme of rice, 2,500-5,500 litres of water is needed, as per the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

The Legislative Council was adjourned for the day after the opposition continued to raise slogans demanding a discussion on farmers' compen...

Companies and analysts said the acreage under cotton could surpass soyabean and pulses as prices are firm.

Fear of another attack of whitefly pest, which ravaged huge tracts of cotton last year in Punjab, has led to biggest drop in area under cot...

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana & Rajasthan will start planting of cotton by May and paddy nursery by June. In MP, soybean cultivation will begi...

Chief Minister N Rangasamy said that 11,418 farmers who raised paddy have been baffled by the massive loss in the devastation.

Parts of north and east India face drought while others have been hit by floods. A report on how farmers are coping with unusual weather.

Above-normal rainfall across central, south-peninsular & western India could affect yield & production of crops in kharif growing states.

Deficient and erratic rains in the previous season is expected to impact grain production in the 2012-13 crop year (July-June) to 252.36 mi...

Growing alternative crops such as maize, mustard and cotton is expected to reduce water consumption and help revive the water table in Punj...

Gujarat which cultivates major crops like Cotton, Groundnut and Paddy is facing a "deficient monsoon" this year.

In kharif season, paddy area will shrink in Punjab & Haryana; acreage under oilseeds, guar, soyabean, maize, jowar & bajra may decrease

There is an immediate need to explore hybrid varieties of cotton and adopt new technologies to ensure high yield as also contain production...

Punjab and Haryana, which contributes almost 12 pc to country's cotton output, are likely to witness a major fall in the area under the cro...

The governments of Punjab and Haryana have estimated to raise area under cultivation of maize, pulses and cotton in the range of 25 to 150%...

The divergence between the official/scientific position and what happens on the ground is nowhere as blatant as in agriculture.