Reportage Indian scientists are helping double poultry farmers’ income by making guinea fowls lay more eggs The Central Avian Research Institute in Bareilly has carried out experiments to boost egg production in guinea fowls. Birds that...
Reportage And now a price hike in poultry feed … Poultry farmers can’t catch a break as the COVID-19 pandemic, the bird flu and now a sharp hike in poultry...
Reportage The grapevine is buzzing, and it’s happy news Indian scientists have developed a new variety of grape that is pest resistant, low cost and high yield. You can...
Reportage A mango variety that fruits thrice a year and is suitable for kitchen gardening Employing grafting technique, a school dropout farmer has developed mango variety that bears fruit thrice a year. This ‘Sadabahaar’ (perennial)...
Reportage Poultry farmers refurbish junk refrigerators as hatcheries Troubled by the high costs of the hatcheries while rearing chicks in their farms, farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Malihabad have...
What We Grow Your annual summer litchi treat could remain a dream 40 per cent of India’s litchi production comes from Bihar. Farmers in Bihar’s litchi bowl of Muzaffarpur have faced crisis...
Reportage Our onion, our price, say Maharashtra farmers Maharashtra’s farmers have been suffering persistent losses due to factors such as change in weather patterns and lack of storage...
Reportage Transgender Mohini’s journey to entrepreneurship 35-year-old Mohini is determined to make her poultry farm in Uttar Pradesh a success story, and hopes others in her...
Reportage New cumin variety to take lesser time to yield, pest-resistant; input costs to reduce as well The Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI) in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, develops CZC-94, a new variety of cumin seeds that is...
Reportage Indian Institute of Soil Sciences devises quick technique to check deficient nutrients in soil Using ‘infrared spectroscopy’, it takes just a few seconds to know the presence or deficiency of 12 nutrients in a...
