India is growing more wheat than it ever was.

CUTTACK: Even as agriculture in the State is faced with a serious problem of low productivity and profitability, the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) here is set to bring out a slew of high-yielding cross-bred aromatic rice varieties in the next few years.

With Geographical Indication Tagging (GITag) prohibiting basmati rice cultivation in non-designated areas like Orissa, the focus is on

The increase in agricultural production shown by the Third Advance Estimates

Indian being the important consumer of rice, the per capita availability of food (rice) had reached an all-time low of 64 kg per annum in 2008-09, which is 20 kg less than the minimum annual requirement of a normal person (NSSO survey). Therefore, to meet the nutritional needs of the people, the food production has to

Ever since mango trees began flowering in both western and eastern Uttar Pradesh this season, farmers as well as scientists at the Central Institute of Subtropical Horticulture (CISH), Lucknow, are working overtime to save the crop.

In the districts of Sandila, Barabanki, Malihabad in Lucknow, Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar, scientists are helping farmers in pest management.

Starting March, CI

For the first time in the recent years, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee devoted considerable amount of time on the importance of agriculture sector for the Indian economy in his recent Budget (2011-12) speech. He announced a number of scheme for augmenting production of foodgrain specially pulses and oilseeds.

A COMMON compliment that Pranab Mukherjee's Union Budget for 2011-12 received from the media was its proclaimed

Prebiotic products from some variety of mangoes from Maharashtra would be shortly available, thanks to Macs, the Agharkar Research Institute