Crops failing against rising temperatures, pest attacks: Study

Rising temperatures due to climate change may be compounding the stress on crops in multiple ways, it says

South Africa topples Tunisia as most food secure — what are the lessons for sub–Saharan Africa

Governments must employ multi-pronged approach to ensure affordability, availability, quality and safety of food

Why are Madhya Pradesh farmers throwing away their garlic crops?

The production of the allium has doubled in the last decade; Chinese, Iranian garlic with larger cloves in greater demand, say farmers

India’s agrarian distress: How dissent has been on the rise

At least 50 major protests were reported across 20 Indian states in 9 months between January and September 2020

Indian farmers protests: The higher the yield, the greater the discontent

Loss of faith in government due to its perceived failure on multiple fronts regarding agrarian issues in the last 11 months have now boiled over

Drought, but why: Area under cultivation has halved in Andhra Pradesh's Ananthapuramu

Decades of deficit rainfall, monoculture in agriculture and perpetually mounting farmer debts have left the district in the lurch

Polls won, waivers announced, but govt has no data on farmer suicides

The last NCRB report published in 2016 said a farmer committed suicide every hour in the country

How Odisha is revalorising minor millets 

Despite their glorious past, millets have been sidelined in farms and on food plates over the years

COVID-19: Bracing for agrarian crisis and food insecurity

Distress among marginal farmers and unavailability of food to migrant labourers has been largely ignored in Union government’s economic …

Can MGNREGA be a tool for post-COVID-19 rural recovery

Agriculture is the least-affected sector of the economy. It is poised to gain and lead economy’s revival process

COVID-19: 60% farmers suffered yield loss on their harvest, shows survey

Survey aimed to evaluate the impact of the nationwide lockdown against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on agricultural production …