A garden is incomplete without hedges and borders. Design your garden with a tasteful range of varieties as per the requirement, especially if it is to be used for creating micro-regions, boundary, for privacy, as a windbreak or to separate informal area from formal area. A well chosen, compact and nicely...

Shimla: (IANS) The man-animal conflict has turned ugly in Himachal Pradesh. Farmers in several villages have set aside their farm implements and loaded their guns — to shoot down monkeys from Friday as the simians have been destroying their crops and fruits. Under ‘Operation Monkey’,...

Here is something which should be an eye opener about handling of apple season this year. Out of the total procurement done by HPMC this year, 45% procurement could not be transported due to bad roads and absence of trucks resulting in rotting at collection centres. Mohan Chauhan, MD, HPMC said, “HPMC...

Shimla: A bumper harvest in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradeesh has pushed down prices by a fifth over last year, causing further distress in the state, though corporate buyers such as Concor and Adani are purchasing briskly, reports Economic Times. As per the ET report the current prices at...