As the air quality in Delhi-NCR hovered between 'severe' and 'very poor' category, a top agriculture ministry official on Tuesday mooted crop diversification and shift to a short duration paddy......
Bharat Krishak Samaj demanded that the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana should be replaced with a new crop insurance and compensation scheme. Removing of GST on agri-inputs, revamping crop......
The business models developed to help farmers realise better returns are facing several hurdles, says Surinder Sud. Even while the prices of agricultural commodities are ruling sky high, farmers......
With as much as 85 million hectares of arable land being almost wholly rain-dependent for crop production, the vulnerability of the Indian agriculture to the vagaries of the monsoon remains......