There is no El Nino effect this year and the monsoon thus far has been almost normal, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) clarified on Thursday.

According to ICAR scientists, the monso

July is the right month to plant seeds in your kitchen garden, say experts in the state agriculture department.

The department has designed a training programme for homemakers and entrepreneurs to se

Three cotton farmers from three different places in the district committed suicide, consuming pesticide, in the course of the last 24 hours after they incurred losses due to their seeds not germinatin

India has not reached the drought situation yet, although it faces the challenge of maintaining record foodgrains production due to weak monsoons this year, agriculture minster Sharad Pawar said here on Monday.

Jagadish Shettar has decided to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Sadananda Gowda and tackle the severe drought by going for cloud seeding to get artificial rains despite apprehensions expres

Eminent agriculture scientist and Rajya Sabha MP, Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, on Wednesday raised concern about droughts and shortage of grain following the abnormal monsoon this year.

Launching a certif

Poor rains in India's key pulse-producing southern and western states have affected sowing and could trim output in the 2012-13 year that began on July 1, the agriculture minister said on Friday.

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India's monsoons should improve next week, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday, as concerns grow that the progress of the crucial June-to-September rains has halted and has hit the sowin

A month after the government decided to merge the profit-making farmers’ venture, the Nadukkara Agro Processing Company, with the government’s Vegetable and Fruits Promotion Council, Keralam, things h

Matters of raising the productivity and going in for a slew of value-added products were the main topics of discussion at the Cocotech international coconut conference which began here on Monday.

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