Agriculture Ministry

Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry has issued extensive directives to the states producing cotton to check the adverse effect of white fly. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has given these directives in view the…

New Delhi, Oct 18: If the union agriculture ministry is to be believed, not a single farmer's suicide was registered in Bihar and Rajasthan in the past 15 years due to agrarian reasons. This is in sharp contrast to the data issued by the…

Chennai, Aug 24: Eminent agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan, welcoming the apex court's directive to revisit the National Policy for Farmers of 2007, clarified that he is not on any committee set up by the union agriculture ministry…

New Delhi, Aug 17: The Indian foodgrain production is projected to decline by 4.66 percent to 252.68 million tonnes in 2014-15 due to "setbacks" in kharif and rabi seasons, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. "Production of kharif…