agriculture
Budgetary directions for the water sector in Telangana
For the irrigation sector, the allocation to total outlay has fallen from 8.87 per cent in 1990-91 to 4.60 per cent in 2015-16.
An old bond revived: Ladakhis and their dzo
This vast ice desert lying in the lap of the Himalayas is an ecologically sensitive zone.
Bumper crop of pulses expected, still short of demand
Govt says country will take two to three years to become self-sufficient in production of pulses.
No tax on farm or agriculture income: Arun Jaitley
Finance Minister says govt targeted Rs 9.8 lakh cr in direct tax and Rs 9.25 lakh cr in indirect tax collections.
Farmers have bright future, income to double by 2022: Rajnath
The union home minister termed the agriculture sector as a sunrise industry with ample growth opportunity.
Investment in agriculture, not loan waiver, solution to farmers' problems: Fadnavis
The Chief Minister said almost 16,000 farmers committed suicide in spite of the loan waiver in five years.
Officers forced to eat their words on farmer’s death
A copy of the report was given to the public so that there is no scope of changing it later.
Government burns 1,000 hectares of fungus-infected wheat
Wheat blast is one of the most fearsome and intractable wheat diseases in recent decades and is caused by the fungus Magnaporthe Oryzae.
Don’t rain on the monsoon parade
About 57 per cent of the farmland in India is rain-fed, and failure of monsoon thus affects a large section of the farming community.
UP House to release book on Mulayam Singh Yadav
The book will be released by Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey and is titled Mulayam Singh Yadav 1967-2007.