The three-day International Workshop on Walnut Production organised by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Jammu & Kashmir Government discussed the issues related to

Agriculture scientists attached to the GB Pant University have developed a new variety of paddy seed which they claim can double the production in the rice producing fields of North India. The seed

A fruit-processing technology developed by the National Chemical Laboratory at Pune has immense relevance in view of the Maharashtra government's initiative to boost agro-industries in the state.

A new fungal disease, which is wreacking havoc in many rubber plantations in Kerala and Karnataka, has cast a shadow on the future of over ten lakh growers in the country. The disease, which is

US farmers will lose $200m worth of exports of maize to the EU this year, because of European resistance to genetically modified crops, a leading US official said at a conference in London. Gus

Floods have affected at least 20 tea gardens in the Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district. About 1,000 sq km of tea plantation area has been badly hit, said the Secretary of the Dooars branch of the

The perpetual shrinkage of the cotton producing area covered by the World Bank-aided Intensive Cotton development Programme(ICDP) in the Northern India has become a serious cause of concern for the

The Anti-Drugs Movement, a Mandsaur-based NGO, has sought the Madhya Pradesh Governor Dr Bhai Mahavir's intervention in the case of 171 poppy farmers who are said to be incarcerated in Mandsaur

Thousands of farmers have descended on this holy city to participate in the three-day mahapanchayat of the farmers better known as farmers' kumbh. At the inaugural session which started here

European Union leaders set an ambitious nine-month deadline for reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and regional aid and agreement on a new EU budget, to prepare for eastern enlargement early