Agriculture India

A leopard cub entered the bio-energy laboratory of the engineering department at the Junagadh Agricultural University in Gujarat today spreading panic on the campus.

The Supreme Court asked tough questions of the Haryana government after a High Court order directed re-opening of the Shambhu border crossing, which has been locked down since February to block farmers protesting the centre's agriculture policies.

India increased its imports of Russian grain and grain products 22 fold, well above other major importers, in the 2023/24 agricultural season, according to data released during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Moscow.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin and discussed ways to diversify cooperation between the two nations in various sectors like trade, commerce, security, agriculture, technology, commerce

Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Centre has set a target to have a co-operative bank and a milk producers' union in each district of the country and also establish in the next five years multipurpose primary agriculture credi

A 29-year-old woman got electrocuted and three others injured when they were working in an agricultural field in Mathura, police said on Saturday.

The Punjab government has prepared an action plan with an outlay of Rs 500 crore for providing machinery to farmers and taking other measures to check stubble burning in the state, said agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian.

Four persons were arrested for allegedly torturing a 27-year-old Chenchu tribal woman for a week in Nagarkurnool district of Telangana after she did not turn up for work in an agricultural land, police said on Saturday.

In a bewildering development, land designated for a canal in the constituency of Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has inexplicably vanished.

Union Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday resigned as the MLA from his traditional Budhni seat in Madhya Pradesh, days after getting elected to the Lok Sabha from Vidisha in the state.

The Madhya Pradesh government had promised to double farmer incomes and its longest-serving chief ministers is now the Union agriculture minister, but most of the soil testing facilities in the state are either shut or functioning way below capacity.

CII expects the country's economy to grow at 8 per cent in 2024-25 on the back of a better performance of the agriculture sector and higher levels of private investment, according to Sanjiv Puri, the newly elected President of the top industry body.

Tripura Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Ratan Lal Nath has flagged off a consignment of 600 kg of queen pineapple for Oman at the Agartala Railway Station. The consignment will first reach Guwahati and subsequently be flown to Oman.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday acknowledged that farm distress cost the ruling Mahayuti alliance dearly in the Lok Sabha polls and said he will meet the new Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and raise the issue of

Ex-Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar, 70, and his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Chouhan, 65, found space in the Modi 3.0 government union cabinet.

A leopard cub entered the bio-energy laboratory of the engineering department at the Junagadh Agricultural University in Gujarat today spreading panic on the campus.

The Supreme Court asked tough questions of the Haryana government after a High Court order directed re-opening of the Shambhu border crossing, which has been locked down since February to block farmers protesting the centre's agriculture policies.

India increased its imports of Russian grain and grain products 22 fold, well above other major importers, in the 2023/24 agricultural season, according to data released during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Moscow.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin and discussed ways to diversify cooperation between the two nations in various sectors like trade, commerce, security, agriculture, technology, commerce

Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Centre has set a target to have a co-operative bank and a milk producers' union in each district of the country and also establish in the next five years multipurpose primary agriculture credi

A 29-year-old woman got electrocuted and three others injured when they were working in an agricultural field in Mathura, police said on Saturday.

The Punjab government has prepared an action plan with an outlay of Rs 500 crore for providing machinery to farmers and taking other measures to check stubble burning in the state, said agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian.

Four persons were arrested for allegedly torturing a 27-year-old Chenchu tribal woman for a week in Nagarkurnool district of Telangana after she did not turn up for work in an agricultural land, police said on Saturday.

In a bewildering development, land designated for a canal in the constituency of Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has inexplicably vanished.

Union Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday resigned as the MLA from his traditional Budhni seat in Madhya Pradesh, days after getting elected to the Lok Sabha from Vidisha in the state.

The Madhya Pradesh government had promised to double farmer incomes and its longest-serving chief ministers is now the Union agriculture minister, but most of the soil testing facilities in the state are either shut or functioning way below capacity.

CII expects the country's economy to grow at 8 per cent in 2024-25 on the back of a better performance of the agriculture sector and higher levels of private investment, according to Sanjiv Puri, the newly elected President of the top industry body.

Tripura Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Ratan Lal Nath has flagged off a consignment of 600 kg of queen pineapple for Oman at the Agartala Railway Station. The consignment will first reach Guwahati and subsequently be flown to Oman.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday acknowledged that farm distress cost the ruling Mahayuti alliance dearly in the Lok Sabha polls and said he will meet the new Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and raise the issue of

Ex-Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar, 70, and his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Chouhan, 65, found space in the Modi 3.0 government union cabinet.