Harvest

With kite flying and pujas, India welcomes the harvest season

The festivals of Lohri, Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Bhogali Bihu, Uttarayan, and Paush Parva significantly mark the harvesting season of crops as the winter season ends and ushers in the spring

Delhi in November was more polluted than the past four years in spite of firecracker ban

This year farmers also started burning crop residue early due to early harvesting this year and hence the farm fires raged for a longer time.

Amid farmer crisis in Tamil Nadu, agriculture ministry predicts record harvest across India

In the midst of Tamil Nadu's agrarian turmoil in a state that produced 5.6 percent of India’s rice in 2014-15, the agriculture ministry has predicted a record national harvest.

Vishu: The traditions, importance and history associated with Kerala's New Year festival

Malayalis believe that an auspicious object is the first thing they should see on Vishu, so that the rest of the year is prosperous.

'Nano Energy' may soon help us harvest energy from human motion to charge electronic devices

You may soon be able to charge cell phones and power Bluetooth headsets with the swipe of a finger as scientists have developed a device that can harvest energy from human motion.

India to receive normal rains, not surplus, as La Nina chances fade

Earlier this month, the IMD had forecast monsoon rains at 106 percent or above normal

India’s major agricultural produce losses estimated at Rs 92,000 crore

Harvest and post-harvest loss of India’s major agricultural produce is estimated at Rs 92,651 crore ($13 billion), according to data published by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries on 9 August, 2016.

Truant monsoon is not raining good news just yet

While early monsoons have improved prospects for bountiful harvests, the intense rainfall of the last few days is expected to subside and move to the east in the next two-three days.

Monsoon covers entire India a month ahead of schedule

The rains usually cover all of India by mid-July, but this year it happened on June 16, said a senior official at the India Meteorological Department, who did not want to be named.

In spite of delayed rains, harvesting of kharif crop on schedule: govt

Normally harvesting of kharif crops begin from end of September till November.