Agricultural Information

     During 2010-11, maize was cultivated in 167 million hectares (ha) leading to a production of 860 million tonnes globally. During 2011, ...

NEW DELHI: The Agriculture Ministry has asked Dow Chemicals' Indian subsidiary to explain why the registration certificates granted to f...

Dehra Dun, May 29 (PTI) To address the widespread wastage of horticulture crops, Union Minister of State for Food Processing and Agriculture...

Ranchi: A team of experts from the Planning Commission is in the city to study the ground realities and prepare a report on improvement of a...

Inquiry Finds Diversion May Have Happened For Decades Chennai: The CBI is investigating the involvement of some state agriculture departmen...

The mystery of sugar trade has got more intriguing. London sugar prices were down from the high of $767 to $500 in less than 45 days. Initia...

April 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. exporters sold 115,000 metric tons of corn to China, its first major sale of the grain to the world’s most-popu...

The state’s annual credit plan (ACP) prepared by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabad) for the current fiscal wou...

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has established a gene bank on its premises at a cost of Rs.1.2 crore. It has been named after K. Rami...

(The author is Chief Economist, CRISIL) The forecast of normal rainfall is the first of the two long-range forecast for the s...

At first glance, the vegetable patches in this north Indian village look no different from the many small, spare farms that dot the country....

BELLARY: The Farmers contact centres in Bellary district are in disarray. There are around 25 centres in the district, among which, 20 centr...

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard), in a bid to step up its focus on the farm sector, plans to bring together ...

Kashmir lags behind Jammu in maize production, produces 1.6 tons per hectare against Jammu’s 2.2 tons Sajad Kralyari Srinagar, April 12: ...

Chettuva (Kerala), April 10 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Saturday reiterated the Government's high priority to the ...

Lucknow: The Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Subodh Kant Sahay, on Friday pointed out that Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Produ...

Bangalore, Apr 9: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) had extended financial assistance to the tune of Rs 3472.24 c...

India needs an investment of almost Rs 1 lakh crore in the food processing industry to raise its percentage to 25 per cent of the total agri...

NAGPUR: Most farmers with good quality produce or organic products received an overwhelming response on the first day of the threeday ‘Mahap...

Many farmers have allegedly committed suicide in Orissa who totally depend on the mercy of rain. In Orissa, farmers engaged in rain fed farm...