To further boost up the high-quality fruit production in this hill state Himachal Pradesh has working to start Rs 1134 Crore World Bank funded Horticulture Development Mission project which is on the anvil to launch in the future. Deputy...
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur , in Himachal Pradesh has become the major driver of Stevia production – the popular low calorie natural sweetener, in the country. With growing diabetes,obesity in the country there is high demand for...
Scientist discovered 13 different types of crops which could improve the yield, vigour and short lifecycle of principal cereals and food-grain likely to bring revolution in the field Rice and Wheat cultivation in various parts of the Country. This...
Mushroom growers from Himachal Pradesh may be looking at a very bright future as mushroom may become one of the few food products which is a viable alternative in the future environment. In view of environmental degradation and shrinking...
Thousands of farmers under the banner of Himachal Pradesh Kissan Sabha and HP Seb Utpadak Sangh today cordon the State Secretariat braving inclement cold waves and rain. The protest led by Himachal Pradesh Kissan Sabha President Dr. Kuldeep Tanwar...
On the intervention of National Green Tribunal (NGT) a technical team of Indian School of Mines from Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad was conducting a study near upcoming Sawra Kudu 100 mega watt power project (developed by the State...
HP Governor Acharya Devvrat urged the farmers to adopt zero budget natural farming so that Himachal Pradesh emerges as the organic State in near future like Sikkim which was declared organic state of the Country. The Governor was speaking...
Himachal Pradesh exported as many as 1.95  carton of apples in the national apple markets across India. A spokesperson of the Horticulture Department disclosed today that more than 1.95 crore apple boxes had been exported so far to various...
The farmers union across the nation demanded constitution of income commission to end the agrarian crisis forcing farmers to commit suicide due to failure of crops and mounting of farm debts. On concluding day of the three day Farmer Unity...
The agriculture expert Mr. Devinder Sharma today advocated the need to give Economic Freedom to the agrarian distress peasantry and provisions of food security to the farmers and their toiling families. Addressing the beginning of the 3-day Kissan Aikata Adhivashan...