The Latest Breaking News from Agriculture

A digital crop survey as part of the Union government’s Agri Stack scheme has begun in Alappuzha.

Speaking to an industry group in the fall of 2015, then-state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer said he saw a bright future for industrial hemp.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced Wednesday it will invest $300 million on monitoring and reporting planet-warming emissions from climate-smart agricultural processes, such as no-till agriculture and panting cover crops

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack launched a USDA effort to improve data on carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions.

The agriculture sector in Andhra Pradesh has witnessed unprecedented progress during the last four years, and the proactive steps taken by the State government have helped the sector to flourish like never before, said Agriculture Minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy.

​WASHINGTON — The fiscal 2024 appropriations process has just begun, but some patterns in the distribution of earmarks by the majorities in their respective chambers are starting to emerge.

Despite a push to hold down overall spending, earmarks in four House bills have grown from less than $1.6 billion to more than $1.9 billion.

Even as the collection of toll on the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway began at Gananguru in Srirangapatna on Saturday amidst protests by locals and Kannada organisations, Home Minister G. Parameshwar and Agriculture Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy came down against the Centre for National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) incomplete work of the highway.

The Karnataka government’s decision to scrap the Agriculture diploma course in Universities of Agricultural Sciences across the State has come under fire from farmers’ associations