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According to the farmers, the cost of seed, fertilizer, medicines and manpower put together comes around 45 to 50 thousand rupee per acre.

The silkworms will hatch and create carbon dioxide, while the potato plants will generate oxygen, Zhang Yuanxun, who designed the ecosystem...

“Storage-space crunch is a chronic problem here. This season, it has touched a critical level,” said Jiban Dam, a potato farmer.

Local market ground level price of different varieties has also come down to Rs 4 a kg at some places while production cost is over Rs 5 pe...

The experiment demonstrates that potato crops can be grown in the most inhospitable environments to save millions of lives.

Even the choice of potatoes is significant, for this is not an ode to its ubiquity — as some Indian politicians might be inclined to assert.

Neel Kotak, MD and CEO at Iscon Balaji, said, “We will have a number of potato speciality products, including Indianised innovations to com...

Potato prices, which have fallen to Rs 5-6 a kg in retail markets, are expected to stabilise at the current level, an expert feels.