COIMBATORE: Arecanut farmers have urged the state government to open a direct procurement centre in Coimbatore district.

Blaming also the lack of maintenance of the premises for the raised saplings wilting away, farmers remark that the horticulture department may well have given away the saplings to them for free.

Habitat destruction isolates the arboreal and nocturnal primates and leaves them with no place to safely shelter.

The horticulture farm set up on 4.72 hectares at a cost of Rs 2 crore in 2018 raises saplings of seven tree varieties like mango, guava and coconut, which are then sold off mainly to farmers at ...

The late Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka’s most celebrated architect, spent about 50 years at his country estate, Lunuganga, on the ...

The climate change is affecting the Toba tribe of Nilgiris. The research reveals the integration of indigenous knowledge with modern technology to tackle the adverse effects of this.

Technology helps save Kashmir's Chinar treesChinar trees of Kashmir, renowned for their longevity and breathtaking views in ...

Theri Kaadu, or the Their desert or The desert of Waste as called by the locales, is a vast land with red dunes located in ...

Israeli varieties, known for being drought-resistant ... By grafting scions from his existing plants onto rootstocks from Tamil Nadu, Parmeshwar has significantly improved the productivity of his ...

Menon believes that Indian coffee varieties have evolved a lot ... When you hear coffee, you don’t think about plantations in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, Karnataka, and other Indian states. You believe ...

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivagalai reveals. This challenges the notion that ...