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

The India Meteorological Department issued a red alert for heavy rainfall in several parts of Punjab, including Gurdaspur and Patiala. An o...

Due to the deficient monsoon last year, reservoirs in the district have only about 22 per cent water stock of their total storage capacity,...

Kumaraswamy said the proposed reservoir will prevent wasteful discharge of Cauvery water into sea. “In another week, Mettur and Bhavani res...

Farmer protests have been a challenge. A bad monsoon will worsen farmer sentiment and alienate them from govt.

Activists punch holes in the provisional figures shared by the government saying the dip in numbers was due to a tweak in the categories.

Climate change will likely bring farm income down by a whopping 25%, which makes it imperative to replace subsidies by direct income suppor...

Sensex has fallen up to 11% in 2 of the 3 monsoons that resulted in surplus rainfalls.

Farm output from summer-sown kharif crops is forecast to increase 9% to a record 135 MT, with the biggest gains in pulses.

This year’s monsoon is crucial as the country has faced droughts in the past two years, which has intensified rural distress and led to an ...

IMD said the monsoon will deliver 6% surplus rain in its fabled four-month journey from the Kerala coast to the lofty mountains in Kashmir.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today laid bare the priority of the government, saying agriculture will have to grow "fastest" for the countr...

Only six out of 18 states have initiated measures to handle the situation and informed the agriculture ministry about the extent of drought.

The distribution pattern of rain forecast is such that any impact on farm output will be limited,adding there was an "abundance of foodgrai...

“We have prepared contingency plans for 580 districts for the eventuality of a weak monsoon, and will be adding more districts,” Singh said.

The Opposition party says that farmers in the state are in distress as they could not undertake sowing operations due to insufficient rains.

Commodity futures rose sharply and many hit the upper circuit as the patchy monsoon heightened concerns of crop losses.