Indian farmers, who largely cultivate Virginia tobacco, may get some 5% better realisation for their produce this time as against the over ...

Gujarat is witnessing piling up of unsold crops following suspension of production by cigarette and bidi makers after govt mandated 85% pic...

The farmers who represent 48% of India’s farm land under tobacco cultivation are facing an unprecedented threat to their livelihoods.

As many as 384 districts spread across 23 states and union territories have been covered by National Horticulture Mission (NHM) under MIDH.

The department of agriculture has said it doesn't support tobacco cultivation and has thus "no objection" to the amendment notification.

Tobacco cultivation has taken a hit this year in the prime belt of Karnataka due to patchy monsoon, pushing up auction prices, which may im...

Tobacco Board has decided to impose more penalty on farmers engaged in unauthorised cultivation of tobacco in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

The government has begun the process of restricting fresh foreign investment in the tobacco sector as it would like India to be seen as a r...

The government will impose a hefty penalty of 15 per cent of sale proceeds if farmers produce more export quality tobacco than the quota al...

There was a plan to phase out the country’s tobacco crop.

The government has set up a Rs 5,000-crore fund to finance tobacco farmers diversifying into other crops such as oilseeds, soyabean and chi...

Tobacco Board has warned farmers against any illegal cultivation of the crop, saying plantation in unauthorised fields will be destroyed am...

Around 50,000 tobacco growers in Andhra Pradesh have never had it so good with the cumulative realisations for 2007-08 skyrocketing by Rs 6...

Farmers in the Charotar region of central Gujarat are a happy lot. For the first time, tobacco is being traded for over Rs 1,000 for a 20-k...

Some five weeks after talking about an action-plan to phase out cultivation of tobacco, Union minister of state for commerce Jairam Ramesh ...

In a move that will have a major impact on tobacco companies, the government is working on a plan to halve tobacco cultivation in 10 years.

The product - which is a health hazard when processed and smoked - has in a crop form sustained a substantial part of the rural economy in ...