The factors that will likely contribute to this scenario include a normal monsoon that has been forecast, steady global demand for Indian f...

Farmers suffered a bad monsoon last year because rainfall was very uneven, starting very late and causing floods towards the end of the sea...

Despite excessive rains and floods damaging crops in some parts of the country, the government is expecting a bumper output of food grains ...

From the floods of Houston to those in Gujarat, from Niger to Mumbai, climate change may not be the central trigger, but it may be aggravat...

Cultivation of pulses has expanded 41 per cent this year, which should calm soaring prices, latest official data shows.

A year after government decided to empower panchayats, success stories are pouring in from villages. Mantra behind the movement is, 'your m...

India’s economic growth picked up pace in the second quarter of the fiscal, helped by strong manufacturing and signs of revival in investme...

CSE said monkeys have been causing extensive damage to agriculture in India which was already facing low productivity due to extreme weathe...

Raj (9.6%), Chh'garh (8.9%), MP (7.4%) and Jharkhand (6.9%) have registered impressive growth of almost 7% or higher over a decade-long per...

The good news is that if extreme conditions ebb, the food output can leap as total area under kharif crops has jumped 18% to 748 lakh hecta...

With the agricultural sector of the economy benefitting, the overall economic scenario may also witness a pick up.

The monsoon prediction by Skymet comes a week ahead of the long-range forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The monsoon has revived significantly in the past week, but the government is anxiously monitoring the situation as crop yields may still b...

There is a silver lining to the drought that hit India in 2009-10. Although it sapped the country's growth, it led to an almost doubling of...

Multinational seed companies are helping Indian farmers push up corn yields 250% with hybrid technology.

Drought usually means electoral defeat for incumbent governments. So does double-digit inflation.

The country has received 14% less rains than the long-period average (LPA) till Thursday since the beginning of the monsoon season on June ...