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By : Isha Sharma The beautiful state, Himachal Pradesh is the fruit basket for the country. Many exotic fruits like apple, pears, peaches, cherries, apricots, almonds, plums, pomegranate, strawberries etc are cultivated here. Another outlandish fruit which is Kiwi, is...
By: ML Verma Shimla: With the advent of Summer-green, Red Gold, Tydeman and Applejune (early ripping strain of apple) aroma at Shimla and Chandigarh fruit markets, the new apple season is set to put half of  Himachal Pradesh to hard...
HimVani Mandi: If experimental plantation by some progressive and enterprising farmers in the lower belts of the state is any indication, Himachal Pradesh may soon emerge as one of the coffee producing regions in the country. So much so...
By: Bonjour As usual, hailstones have badly damaged fruit and other seasonal crops in Himachal this year too, with the farming community having no option but to watch the destruction as mute spectators. Orchardists were promised ‘fruitful’ days by the...
Himvani SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh’s first wireless Community Radio was today launched in Solan, district. Chief Secretary of government of Himachal Pradesh Asha Swaroop inaugurated the community radio at M.S. Panwar Institute of Communication and Management (MSPICM), Solan. The radio MSPICM...
By: NEHA Here are few excerpts from the report on the Agriculture Census, prepared by the Department of Land Records, Government of Himachal Pradesh. Despite the apple boom, Himachal Pradesh remains a poor recipient of the changes in the agriculture sector,...
By: Kalpana Palkhiwala Medicinal plants have always been considered a healthy source of life for the people. Therapeutical properties of medicinal plants are very useful in  healing various diseases. There are more than 8000 medicinal plants listed in different classical and...
The mandate of Fisheries Department in Himachal Pradesh is to increase “Fish Production” from its living aquatic resources, which is an important animal protein and also plays an important role in the food security, poverty elevation and employment generation. In...
HimVani Shimla: It may be perhaps too late with recession clouds threatening the IT sector the most, but the Himachal Pradesh government anyway finally gave its nod for setting up state’s first information technology park at Waknaghat on Tuesday. The...
By: Ravinder Vasudeva Shimla: A certain brain drain has been happening in Himachal for years with the youth generally feeling that there are not many opportunities to pursue a career here, but there are people like Vinod Soni who, from...