Indian farmers are set to expand wheat acreage by about 5% to a record high, aided by higher returns and October's untimely ...

The goal of the initiative is to help policymakers to easily spot trends in this sensitive sector of the economy, make timely ...

India's rabi crop acreage rises 10%, with wheat sowing up 17%, as early planting boosts yields and expectations.

The new GE technology — for which the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has recently been granted a patent — ...

The WEF report highlights how AI and emerging technologies can revolutionize agriculture, citing impactful case studies from India.

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 Asia's third biggest economy, ...

Rice prices in Asia are poised to fall further as a bumper Indian harvest adds to plentiful global supply, while the world’s biggest importer curbs its overseas purchases to support local farmers.

MUMBAI, March 15 (Reuters) - Untimely rains and hailstorms could damage India's key winter-sown crops such as wheat, rapeseed and chickpeas just before harvesting begins for plants that have already ...

On a sunny afternoon last month, two dozen people gathered at the council office in a south Indian village to protest against a new ethanol plant they say is polluting their backyard.

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 ...

India’s National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Ltd., an online bourse for agricultural products, has received approval ...

NEW DELHI — An invasion by swarms of desert locusts has devastated crops in India’s heartland, threatening an already vulnerable region that is struggling with the economic cost of coronavirus ...