The Cabinet has approved revamping of the crop insurance scheme to help farmers manage risks better and cleared a proposal to create 10,000...

Farmers have already started preparing land for their kharif crop.

Farmers are holding protest in the capital to demand a special session of Parliament on the agrarian crisis.

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

GST rollout and extreme weather to lower tax collections by states and Indians’ yearning for a male child, Arvind Subramanian has identifie...

For the first time, the Survey quantifies the impact that climate change will have on the economy—the focus is on the farm sector.

The Survey has called for reviewing cereal centricity of agricultural policy, doing away with power and fertilisers and allocating more res...

The survey said that extreme weather patterns can impact farm incomes in the range of 15 per cent to 18 per cent on average, and up to 20 t...

Back in 1997, a government committee calculated that the Ultimate Irrigation Potential (UIP) for India was about 140 million hectares (Mha).

While kharif rice planting improved in late Aug and early Sept, overall productivity is likely to be lower than last year due to delayed pl...

A marginal decline in cultivable land has not adversely affected the country's food production, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said toda...

The real kicker to this year’s farm GDP growth will come from excellent soil moisture and copious reservoirs of water.

Nearly half of the net sown land in India falls in unirrigated areas with a majority in important agricultural states, shows government dat...

In our view, the National Food Security Bill, instead of solving the problem of exclusion and inclusion error, has given ways to augment su...

India's edible oil imports have more than doubled in just four years to over 88 lakh tonnes in 2009-10 oil year.

Pulse production in Bihar has declined, according to a study conducted by the State Farmers Commission (SFC).

Nabard plans to raise around Rs 11,000-12,000 crore from the market in the current fiscal.