Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Governor Ramesh Bais on Tuesday underlined the need for developing a cropping pattern which will be adaptable to global warming and climate change. “India made an ambitious ...

The Agricultural Prices Commission (APC, later renamed as CACP) and the Food Corporation of India (FCI), both came into existence in January 1965. The APC was mandated to recommend minimum support ...

A recent analysis of the last 58 years’ (1960 to 2017) weather data of Karnataka has indicated a considerable shift in rainfall pattern in the State, which has a bearing on agriculture and water ...

Crop pattern, which is defined as the spatial representation of crop rotations, or as the list of crops that are being produced in an area and their sequence in time, has been among the major ...

THE impact of BT cotton gene on yield is the hot topic these days for it allows the textile sector to live in an illusion of plenty of raw material potential. Many of our entrepreneurs in the textile ...

Also, the spatial distribution of rains was uneven and particularly patchy in the eastern region. (Representative image) The pattern of southwest monsoon in recent years has necessitated a shift in ...

A top West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) official warned that "soon our rivers would dry up if we don't change our cropping pattern now." WBPCB chairman Kalyan Rudra said myths about the ...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday warned the farmers of the grim scenario unfolding due to global climate change and suggested them to go for change in the present cropping pattern. “Farmers ...

While rice and wheat occupied 90.1% of the area in Punjab and contributed 76.9% towards production in 2014–15, the combined area under other crops, which in 1966–67 was 54.54%, has decreased ...