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 ...

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 ...

Thought to have arrived from China in 2000 BC, the latest research shows that domesticated rice agriculture in India and Pakistan existed centuries earlier, and suggests systems of seasonal crop ...