The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

Binu Thomas, a farmer from Wayanad, found success in passion fruit cultivation after recurring losses in ginger. He now cultivates the crop on 5 acres of rented land, earning an average profit of ₹2.5 lakh a year. The low cost of production, low pest attacks and steady demand make passion…

Food and agriculture firms have sent three times as many delegates to the climate summit as last year

Centre bans export of onions till March 24; farmers in Nashik protest, halt auctions. Farmers, traders to meet CM to express concerns.

Narayanappa, a farmer from Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, has become a beacon of hope for sustainable agriculture in India. His journey, documented by Vishy, earned them global recognition at the Karmaveer Chakra Award. The 'Any Time Money' (ATM) model developed by Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS) has demonstrated the potential to revolutionise…

Deleting a single base-pair from the genome of plants like cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, tomato, and rice can make them male-sterile, leading to an abundant harvest of hybrid seeds. This is due to a process called heterosis, which is enabled by the fine balance of the Ms-cd1 protein's levels. The mutation's…

A light rain barely moistens the soil in the drought-stricken region of Junin in central Peru.

France raised the risk level of bird flu to 'high' from 'moderate' on Tuesday after new cases of the disease were detected, forcing poultry farms to keep birds indoors to stem the spread of the highly contagious virus.

There have been over 200 cases of salmonellosis linked to poultry products such as eggs and meat this year

After a wet end to spring, the outlook for Christmas cherries and mangoes is not good. Peaches and nectarines, however, are on the nice list