Given the Met’s disastrous track record in predicting the impact of El Nino events—the first projection in 2009 was of a rainfall level of 96% of the long-period average against the actual levels o

Modified scheme benefits tenants and covers all food grain

Crop insurance scheme is being implemented as modified national agricultural insurance scheme in all the 13 blocks in Pudukottai district during 2013-14 based on the administrative sanction accorded by the Centre and approval by the State government.

Smarting under the effects of an unprecedented natural calamity in June, the Uttarakhand government is working on a Rs 9,000-crore action plan to minimize the impact of climate change in the state.

Funds of Rs 600 crore have been released till July 31st this year under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) said Tariq Anwar, minister of state for agriculture and food processing ind

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) is anguished over the alarming rate of suicides occurring in the farming community ever since the advent of the new economic policy, said N.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN once sang about “going on the town now looking for easy money”. As easy money goes, it is hard to beat farm subsidies.

The Agriculture Policy-2013 will mark a watershed in the agri-horticulture development while driving the food processing sector in the State, Minister for MSME Damodar Rout said here on Thursday.