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How a fruit born out of 1992 experiment is helping farmers earn Rs 10–12 lakh per acreMahabaleshwar strawberries have become a symbol of Maharashtra's agricultural innovation, growing from a seasonal fruit into a thriving ind...
India's cows offer biogas alternative to Mideast energy crunchIndia faces cooking gas shortages due to global events. Villagers in Uttar Pradesh are turning to biogas, made from cow dung, as a reliable...
Brazilian researchers remix coffee varieties to confront climate challengeThis crucial research aims to combat climate change's threat to global coffee supplies, as arabica faces declining yields. The goal is to c...
$12 billion payout alert: Americans set to receive one-time bridge payments under new programThe U.S. government approved $12 billion in bridge payments for farmers. Up to $11 billion goes to row-crop producers hit by trade disrupti...
February heat may damage wheat crop: IMD“The higher day temperature might lead to an adverse effect on wheat as wheat crop is approaching reproductive growth period, which is sens...
Maharashtra to produce record sugar levels in new seasonHigher production will weigh on local prices and may prompt New Delhi to allow sugar exports in the 2022/23 marketing year starting from Oc...
30% likely fall in new crop: Coffee growersA good crop is also predicted in Vietnam, the second largest coffee growing country.
West Bengal starts project for supplementing farmers’ agricultural income with income from fish cultivationThe state agriculture and fisheries departments have jointly taken up this project in Malda district which will subsequently spread to othe...
Government cuts Bt cotton seed price to Rs 740/packetThe new prices will come into effect from the 2018 kharif season starting June. A packet of Bt cotton seeds is of 450 gram.
Coriander ‘cartel’ stuck as price falls 29% in a monthThe generic contract slipped below the Rs 5,000 a quintal mark to Rs 4,970 on Wednesday.
Third year in a row, horticulture output beats grain productionBesides, horticulture production also showed continuous increase unlike foodgrain output which reported a decline in 2014-15 as compared to...
Untimely rains destroy 90% crops; poppy farmers looking for alternativesWith over 90 per cent crop lost because of untimely rains in the previous season, poppy farmers are now looking for alternative crops.
Budget 2015: Vidarbha farmers demand time bound budgetary allocationsMaharashtra's Vidarbha region has witnessed hundreds of suicides by the farmers in the past due to debt, drought and crop failure.
- Cabinet to consider extra wheat exports on Thursday to cut stocks at warehouses
Farmers in India, the world's biggest wheat producer after China, are likely to harvest a bumper crop in 2013, its sixth in a row to exceed...
Wheat, rice stocks swell; exports possibleIndia's wheat and rice stocks more than doubled as at March 1.
- Farmers may lose 35 kg wheat/hectare a day for delayed sowing
As protests on sugarcane pricing threaten to delay wheat sowing in Uttar Pradesh, agri research body ICAR today warned that farmers may los...
- Mentha oil up 3 pc at MCX
Continuing its upward march for the second day in a row, mentha oil prices shot up by another 3 pc in early trade in the futures market.
- Official says no need for India to use maize for biofuel
Unlike the US, India need not use crops like maize to produce biofuel, an alternate fuel that consumes a large portion of corn production, ...
- UB, rivals (beer) belly up to Pepsi for barley
Pepsi has already signed a three-year exclusivity contract with Vijay Mallya’s UB for the high-grade two-row barley. High-end whiskies
- Farmers dump turmeric on poor return
With turmeric prices remaining weak for two years in a row, acreage under the crop has declined by almost a quarter in 2007-08 compared to ...