The Maharashtra agriculture department plans to set up tehsil-level weather monitoring centres to give farmers area-specific advisories that will help them determine the crop pattern and anticipate

The Central government’s MSP has proven to be unrealistic and ultimately disastrous for India’s farmers.

KOLKATA, 31 OCT: The state finance department today sanctioned Rs 285 crore for procurement of 20 lakh metric ton of rice.

Thailand may lose a quarter of its main rice crop in the nation’s worst flooding in decades, the government estimates, which could boost prices of the staple and further squeeze shipments from the

KOLKATA, 23 OCT: At a time when the common people are facing immense hardship owing to rapidly rising prices of essential commodities, a new project to be taken up by the state irrigation departmen

Fatehabad: Despite a ban, farmers have been burning paddy straw on their fields with impunity after harvesting their crops.

In another step towards food security, Odisha has been included in the international programme for Roots & Tuber Crops (RTC) initiated by the International Potato Centre (known by its Spanish a

Foodgrain production in Mizoram has increased by 30 per cent this year.

Grain output is growing as farmers chase high prices, according to US government figures, suggesting food inflation pressures may abate in the months to come.

Officials here kicked off what promises to be more than a year of bitter wrangling over how to revise its $75 billion-a-year program to aid Europe's farmers, and the sniping began almost immediatel