Cotton sowing is down to 11.24 million hectares, raising alarms about India’s textile export goals. The decline in production ...

Cool-season vegetables, including kale and others in the cabbage family, may be the best choice for mid-summer sowing. An earlier-than-expected frost will not kill them before they are ready to eat.

Prices of onion and potato, two basic grocery items, continue to be stubbornly high due to lower output last year, squeezing ...

Cilantro ( Coriandrum sativum) is the perfect herb for late summer planting. “My favorite crop to plant for a fall harvest is ...

Officials are counting on robust kharif or summer planting to calm food inflation. Expanding summer sowing should have a ...

desperately needed to harvest summer crops and prepare the soil for summer sowing. Even Economy minister Martin Guzmán who recently reached a financial understanding with the IMF to avoid ...

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The thrum of crickets, cooler air, the aroma of fallen leaves, and a touch of color in the trees usher in the onset of autumn in New England. This week in the garden, I am turning my attention to ...

The pick-up in summer sowing is likely to help reduce food prices, it added. Goyal, who is heading the food and consumer affairs ministry, asserted that the Modi government would continue to take ...

A kitchen garden should be full all year round,’ says Joe Lofthouse who is in charge of growing edibles at the RHS Harlow Carr garden in North Yorkshire. He adds: ‘A lot of people think this ...

Two members of a gospel group were caught this last austral summer sowing barley in Antarctica in a bio-security breach that highlights calls for tougher controls on growing tourism to the continent.

citing normal kharif or summer sowing. MEP is a set minimum price below which a produce cannot be sold to foreign buyers. It’s a measure designed to discourage exports and increase local supplies.