Punjab emerged as the “food basket” of India in the 1960s, producing rice and wheat for the entire country through its adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds, but at the expense of essential commodity crops like groundnut. The cultivation of groundnut, which was over 222,0..

Market price and yield make all the difference in improving agricultural profitability for small and marginal cultivators. In Salem district, the third major turmeric-producing district in Tamil Nadu, most farmers faced a 30-60% loss in the yield of turmeric, due to pest and disease problems. This m..

Dragons flies are neither dragons nor flies but they are odonatian insects. These are so common during rainy season in our distt. Jind( Hariyana) that every one have to see them flying in sky over parks in city and over crop canopies in the villages. They are called as helicopters by the children in..

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