Alarmed at the partial damage to pulses, mustard and wheat rabi crop in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, due to prolonged cloudy weather, rain and hail, the Union Agriculture

The Government of Assam is currently implementing 41 schemes under the State Plan for development of agriculture and allied sectors in the

The government has been asked to ban export of non-renewable soil resources from the country, especially from the coastal region of

In Madhya Pradesh, Nimar Area is affected by pests and about 30 to 40 percent cotton crop is destroyed. Farmers are unhappy as pesticides of all the brands are prone to be unaffected.

Monsanto Co. expects its bio-engineered soyabean seed to take Argentina - the world's third-largest soyabean grower - by storm.The US-based agriculture company expects its Roundup Ready soyabean

For the first time in the country the Oriental insurance company had introduced a comprehensive coconut palm insurance scheme here on Thursday. Chairman-cum-managing director of the company M V

Soyabean production in the country can be doubled by 2002 , the terminal year, of the Ninth Plan by bringing over nine million hectares of "fallow" land under cultivation. "By using short-duration

The Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation has launched an ambitious Centrally-sponsored Haryana Women's Dairy Project costing Rs 4.48 crore. The project would benefit about 10,000 women

FM : Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha announced that a new crop insurance scheme would be evolved in the next two months to bring farmers uncovered by the scheme in its fold. Addressing a press

A three-year project to genetically engineer rice proteins to resist major fungal diseases in the rice crop, will be carried out by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural

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