Category : Agriculture News

A young engineering student develops a smart device to measure soil moisture, farm temperature and even regulate irrigation based on those parameters. The microcontroller-based Smart...

Indian farmers usually do not wear any protective gear while spraying chemicals in farms. This exposes them to harmful toxins contained in pesticides, causing severe...

A team of farm researchers develop an ultrasonic sensor-based automatic spraying system that promises to cut down on the use of pesticides in orchards. The...

Farm scientists find a new migrant insect in Karnataka that can potentially causes losses to dozens of crops. The pest has been damaging maize plants...

Researchers from TERI School of Advanced Studies develop an early flowering transgenic variety of mustard, which can cope with climate change, without compromising the yields....

Air pollution is not only injurious to human health, but to plant life also. Scientists from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) find most wheat cultivars developed...

Agricultural scientists find, traditional rice varieties of Kerala are vital source of nutrition and health-benefiting substances, with minimum polishing. The study by Kerala Agricultural University...

Indian scientists isolate probiotics from chicken intestine, which could help disease-free poultry products. The bacteria isolated from intestine of country chicken is a lactic acid...

Climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection in South Asia,...

Unabated climate change would bring devastating consequences to countries in Asia and the Pacific, which could severely affect their future growth, reverse current development gains,...