Export bans, restrictions: How government is trying to keep food prices in check ahead of elections

A tight rein kept on onions, wheat, rice, sugar and pulses

New study can help develop wheat varieties with high zinc levels

Indian and foreign scientists have identified regions in the wheat genome responsible for concentration of zinc in wheat grain

Centre levies 50 per cent import duty on peas; domestic prices likely to get a boost

The development will directly benefit chickpea farmers, who are likely to get higher price for chickpea crops this season

India's burning issue of crop burning takes a new turn

The pattern of burning crop residue in India is changing. The practice is no longer limited to the post-monsoon crop of rice or the northern …

Pollution destroys crops

Ploughing on in Punjab

How successful will the state's crop deversification scheme be?

Born loser

Herbicides are the culprits

Man who authored green revolution dies at 95

Upturned harvest

On a trip on the outskirts of Jaipur RAVLEEN KAUR finds farmers making money by following an unconventional practice

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Regressive move

Wheaticide

Herbicide promotes toxic fungi

Virus scare

News for farmers

Temperature rise in India’s northern plains unlikely to impact wheat: Centre

With February being abnormally warm, farmers have been worried about a repetition of last year’s impact of heat on the staple crop

Stage set for armageddon

Two wheat genes that confer absolute resistance to lethal Ug99 stem rust strain identified

Death on mounds of a bumper crop

As corruption hijacks procurement centres in Bundelkhand, farmers prefer suicide to a debt trap. Richard Mahapatra reports from Uttar Pradesh …

Simply put: Minimal MSP hike

Silent famine: What exactly changed in India’s wheat and rice?

The crops gained quantity but lost quality in the quest to feed India’s millions

Will India’s wheat imports lead to global food crisis?

Traders have already placed orders for importing 100,000 tonnes from Australia

For the sake of caution

A decision to refuse clearance to GMOs should be based on good science and policy

Where have all the sparrows gone?

Looks as if they are going the way of the dodo

Free the polyphenols

Wheat rusts no more

Yellow rust strikes wheat in northern India

ICAR, agricultural universities and state agriculture departments issue advisories, alerts