As per the agriculture ministry, kharif cotton sowing is inching up to the levels of the previous year.

Wheat-harvesting has trickled up in the current week in Uttar Pradesh, largest producer of the cereal in India. The official wheat procurem...

Hydropower generation recorded a drop of 17.5% and 16% in months of April and May, respectively, due to scanty rains and less snowfall in t...

Since June 1 this year, Rajasthan received 130.63 mm of rainfall as against 280 mm in the corresponding months of 2013, and this time it is...

To maintain the water supply and irrigation requirements, the state government had already sent a contingency plan costing Rs 504 crore to ...

Natural rubber production and consumption to fall short of Rubber Board's projections for 2012-13 due to scanty rains and declining automob...

Scanty rains in cotton-growing regions of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have washed away hopes of hybrid seeds growth in the country.

Ratings agency Crisil today said the shortfall will have an adverse impact on headline inflation and push it beyond estimates.

Green activists are apprehensive that the scanty rains may erode the delicate ecological balance of the city's wetlands.

Almost 70% of the country has got less than normal rains so far in the season, data released by the Indian Meteorological Department showed.

Nearly two-thirds of the country have received deficient or scanty rains this season as monsoon appeared set to miss its date with Delhi.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that there was no panic situation in food security although indications are that kharif ...

The patched monsoons have not only increased prices of agri commodities, but also raised the trading volumes of commodity exchanges.

Vijay Tiwari's first paddy crop has been completely destroyed due to scanty rains. Now, he is going in for a second sowing in spite of the ...

Government officials say that an estimated 50% of the crops sown in at least 17 districts has been destroyed due to the adverse climatic co...

The price is already up by Rs 200 per quintal in July. Further, high demand for guar seed by-products is also keeping the prices firm.

The rain gods have continued to disappoint for the second week in a row, with the average quantum of rainfall well below expected.