Farmers extracting wheat from thresher machine in the village in Agra.

The best part is that using one mother plant, you can grow two-three varieties of mangoes. Thus, you can pluck Alphonso Payri, Kesar and Totapuri from the same tree. But when graf...

In Maharashtra, around Ratnagiri region, Alphonso grows in abundance. Nearer Mumbai, varieties of Payri, Kesar and Totapuri are grown more.

The reason is that any hybrid plant needs to adapt itself to the environment. But when grafted properly with a local plant, it adapts itself faster. Mango grafting should not be do...

When we plant a tree in the garden, we need to take all care like proper watering, application of fertilisers and pesticides, etc. Still they sometimes wither. But plants growing l...

If you put a hybrid plant directly in soil, it will take longer to bear fruit. A wild variety or tree will grow faster and requires less attention than the hybrid.

Thus, no other growth can be allowed on it; the only growth should be of the graft. And in about three years or so, it should bear fruit.

Now, for a little over a year, you need to keep a watch if there is any growth apart from the graft. If you notice any such growth, it needs to be snipped. All the energy of the mo...

After some time, you will notice the leaves and then, small buds sprouting on top. Then you need to cut the mother plant around the top – about two feet from graft.

Wild mangoes are smaller and less pulpy. You can get such mango trees in any forest. You need to select one mature tree and then graft it with a hybrid mango of your choice… say ...

Mango tree grafting can be done in a one or two-year-old plant or an older tree as well (called the mother plant).

Farmers inspect their wheat crop affected due to rains and strong winds, at a village in Patiala district.

And… Mahi loves dogs. He has quite a few at home and has trained them to perform some pretty neat tricks as well. ‘Captain Cool’ remains as ‘hot’ as ever on this ‘new f...

In an Instagram post earlier, Dhoni had shared a video in which he plucked a strawberry from his own farm and ate it. “If I keep going to the farm, there won’t be any strawberr...

Now, reports indicate that some of the produce may be exported to Gulf markets like Dubai. All Season Farm Fresh, an agency which helps the state agriculture department with vegeta...

Grown in his farmhouse – where Dhoni regularly chips in, like driving a tractor himself as in this photograph – the produce is sold in the markets in the state’s capital, Ran...

Now Dhoni, who retired from international cricket in August 2020, grows strawberries, cabbages, tomatoes, peas, etc at Sembo village in Jharkhand.
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Each time Mahendra Singh Dhoni went out to the field, opponents were usually in disarray, and their hearts skipped several beats, thinking what Mahi’s next move would be.

Farmers inspect their damaged wheat crop following unseasonal rainfall and hailstorm, in the outskirts of Bhopal.

Farm workers harvest sweet potatoes in a field at a village in Karad, Maharashtra