Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today unveiled Odisha’s Agriculture Policy-2013 on the auspicious occasion of ‘Akshaya Tritiya’, ...

There is a need for a market revolution on the lines of the green revolution to improve the economic conditions of the farmers, said L.B. Hugar, Dean of Agriculture ...

The Maharashtra government has decided to launch a project with $85 million funding from the Asian Development Bank, which will augment the agriculture infrastructure ...

The agriculture sector in the country is facing an acute shortage of graduates and scientists in the field, impacting both research and development and business ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has come forward to help in improving productivity of certain crops in three regions of Andhra ...

President Pranab Mukherjee and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar present the Krishi Karman Commendation Award for higher production of food grains.

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has called for a greater role for private sector in agriculture during the 12th Plan (2012-17) period to sustain the high growth in ...

Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA), a network of non-governmental organisations and intellectuals, termed poor allocations to agriculture sector ...

The danger today lies in a slowing non-farm economy, leading to distress migration back to the farms. For a country where agriculture is seen as a ‘way of life ...

On a citizen's scale of priorities as also expectations from the Government, security of life figures at the top followed by assurance of nourishment, right to ...

Agriculture and power are the two important sectoral constraints of growth. Even a small shortfall in agricultural production can cause serious distortion in the ...

Agriculture and power are the two important sectoral constraints of growth. Even a small shortfall in agricultural production can cause serious distortion in the ...

They said technology innovations to the seed would play an important role in bringing about an evergreen revolution in agriculture. Focussed approach

Although agriculture is the largest source of livelihood for Indian workers, yet a farmer earns only 30-40 per cent of the nation’s overall average per capita income.

Forget about urban agriculture that seeks to grow crops over rooftops. India will get a taste of Metropolitan agriculture when a 10-member delegation from Michigan ...

Aided by strong growth in agriculture, mining and financial services, the Indian economy grew 8.2 per cent in the third quarter of the current fiscal, up from 7.2 per ...

He said that India could show the way in organic products in 30 years, especially in sustainable agriculture and food safety. Mr Andrew Leu, President of UN's IFOAM, said ...

Freer trade in agriculture and a higher proportion of public expenditure on investment as opposed to subsidy can stimulate productive forces in farming.

State Minister for Agriculture Kanna Laxmi Narayana, said the State Government had taken up an action plan involving an investment of Rs 2,500 crore for farm ...

Prof M.S. Swaminathan, the father of Green Revolution and Chairman of National Commission on Farmers (NCF) that called for revamp of policies to revitalise agriculture ...