The number of suicide cases by farmers due to agrarian reasons have increased by 26 percent to 1,109 in 2014, with majority of deaths reported from Maharashtra, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.

With a majority of the state’s marginal farmers finding it tough to carry on with agriculture owing to different reasons, the Punjab government has sought the World Bank’s help to progress in the f

There is no immediate threat from climate change to the farm sector, said experts while addressing the 12th Agricultural Science Congress at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) here today.

Climate change mitigation measures have received ‘subdued’ attention in comparison to adaptation interventions in most of the agricultural development initiatives, including National Food Security

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday mooted a more broad-based and inclusive approach for a ‘second green revolution’ aimed at augmenting grain production in a sustainable manner.

Forestry practices can play a vital role in landslide disaster management especially in view of the landslides in the Himalayan regions.

Two green crusaders in West Bengal have made it to the record books for breeding plants to record heights and growing them two-way to counter effects of global warming.

The Ernakulam district panchayat has approved a plan to launch new aquaculture farms on 67 hectares during the current financial year under the guidance of the District Aquaculture Development Agen

Panaji : Goa's mussel shellfish, a regular part of the state's cuisine, has got a fresh lease of life after the Indian Council for Agricultural Research embarked on a project to arrest the rapid de

India might see the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) jute in a month.

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