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 ...

Agriculture always remains the backbone of the Indian economy, which supports nearly half of the Indian population and ...

Ample monsoon rain in the first half of July accelerated planting of main summer-sown crops such as soybean, cotton and pulses in India, although rice planting is still lagging behind due to scant ...

Agricultural and space scientists have joined efforts in India to create a technology-backed smart way to quickly estimate the country’s crop yields, overriding time-consuming traditional sampling ...