To reduce the impact of viral infection on cotton, the Hisar administration has decided to create a 20-km long buffer zone along the Rajasthan border. For the past couple of years, cotton crop has

Monsanto, the US life sciences group which has become one of the most aggressive players in agricultural biotechnology, is to buy the international seed operations of Cargill, the privately owned US

Scientists here have identified for the first time a strain of a popular South Indian cotton variety that can be multiplied through tissue

The Union agriculture ministry in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has drawn up a detailed action plan for boosting agri production in the current kharif season.

Fungal diseases like powdry mildew and an insect, (belonging to genus amritodus and idioscopus) commonly called mango hopper, and unseasonal windstorms had taken a heavy toll of this year's

Sunflower , considered the best diversified fancy kharif crop, may not remain the ideal choice for farmers due to an attack by pests, lesser area under cultivation and the prevailing high temperature

Experts at the Directorate of Wheat Research at Karnal in Haryana have found that wheat productivity could be increased through frontline demonstration in the form of applied research. Frontline

Traditonal paddy cultivators are now moving over to greener pastures like cash crops because of high cost of labour that is eating into their profits.

With their economy shattered, farmers of the cotton belt of Punjab have started selling their new tractors at rates much below the showroom prices for repaying old debts.