using just over half of its agricultural land to grow crops like sweet potatoes, walnuts, nutmeg and oilseeds. Gujarat and Rajasthan follow with about a quarter of their land under cultivation for ...

In December 2024, Shahbudeen spent Rs. 4.5 lakh - almost his entire annual farming income - to dig a borewell for irrigation. After hours of labor, the digging reached 600 feet, only to end in a ...

In Rajasthan's Thar Desert, farmers in Sikar and Jhunjhunu have successfully cultivated apples, a fruit typically grown in cooler ... innovation could transform agriculture in arid regions ...

A new breed of farmers in India are going beyond the lure of paddy and wheat MSP, and sowing unconventional cash crops that ...

Paddy was cultivated in the state in just 2.27 hectares in 1960. Rice was not a staple diet of the people and coarse grains, ...

The Modi government’s grand millet campaign promised prosperity for small farmers, but Rajasthan’s Bajra growers feel ...

Harvesting difficulties, labour and even climate effects alongside inadequate institutional support are making it difficult ...

Agriculture contributes about 18% to India’s GDP, with higher temperatures potentially impacting crops like summer moong and ...

India's government is accelerating the shift to digital crop surveys (DCS), aiming for nationwide coverage by the 2025-26 Kharif season. Replacing the manual Patwari-Girdawari system, DCS uses ...

The outlook, which comes amid reports of above-normal temperatures across several parts of the country, is set to please the farming community as well as policymakers.

Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal Monday said the farmers' agitation will continue till the government accepts their ...