Venkatesan Sundaresan, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and plant sciences at the University of California, Davis, ...
India is the world's second-largest producer of wheat and rice and is home to more than 600 million farmers. The country has achieved impressive food-production gains since the 1960s, due in part to ...
A Moradabad farmer’s lifelong mission to revive extinct seeds transformed sustainable agriculture and empowered generations ...
NEW DELHI: Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday released 184 new varieties of 25 different crops to increase productivity, reduce input costs and address the challenges of ...
Yet agriculture remains badly in need of a shake-up. Though yields have risen steadily for 60 years, they remain poor. Indian rice-growers harvest about a third less than their Chinese peers. Pulses ...
India supports 15 percent of the world’s population, but has only 4 percent of the world’s water resources. World Bank data shows that only 35 percent of India’s agricultural land is irrigated. This ...
In India, 70% of rural households depend on agriculture, of which 80% are smallholder farmers, owning two hectares or less. About 6 million cultivate cotton, a cash crop that’s India’s third-largest ...
White Gold of India: Cotton is called the White Gold of India because of its high economic value, wide industrial use, large-scale employment generation, and strong contribution to exports. From ...
Researchers found that the yields from grains such as millet, sorghum, and maize are more resilient to extreme weather in India; their yields vary significantly less due to year-to-year changes in ...
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