NEW DELHI/BAMNOLI, India - India has just suffered back-to-back drought years for only the fourth time in over a century, summer crops are wilting and reservoir water levels are at their lowest in at ...
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), up to 40 per cent of crops globally are lost each year to pests ...
Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday released 184 new varieties of 25 different crops to increase ...
India will need to feed approximately 394 million more people by 2050. Meanwhile, many of its regions are chronically water-stressed, and nutrient deficiencies are widespread -- 30 percent of Indians ...
About two-thirds of India's 1.3 billion people live on small subsistence farms, struggling to eke out a living. Many farmers have felt left behind as crops have failed or diminished due to disease, ...
MUMBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Heavy rainfall in India has damaged key summer-sown crops such as rice, soybean, cotton, pulses and vegetables just before harvesting, which could stoke food inflation in ...
Brim-full granaries will help India deal with any drop in wheat output but crop losses will cut farmers' meagre earnings NEW DELHI, March 16 (Reuters) - Unseasonal torrential rains and hailstorms have ...