High yields in Andhra's pesticide-free village

Organic drive in Uttaranchal ignores farmers' concerns

Other side of pesticides contamination

What a waste

Enter the Bank

With IT villages

Elsewhere the bubble may have burst, but in rural India infotech is alive and kicking

Desi cotton to the rescue

CICR banks on traditional solutions to Vidarbha’s cotton crisis

Gearing up for Bt cotton

Farmers ready to sow GM cotton in Andhra Pradesh

Farming made unprofitable

A continental crisis, and a few green shoots

African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …

The Monsanto way

How the US multinational won state governments and influenced policy

From where our food will come

Paan loses flavour

Iconic paan no more appeals to farmers, traders and common people. They say the contagious spread of chewing tobacco, especially gutkha, is fast …

Maize Mania

Maize has become the queen of cereals, courted by state governments, seed companies, farmers and the feedstock and starch industries as the crop …

Pricing food in poor India

India must focus on rainfed farming

There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons. That is not the case any more, with industrial production …

Wasted wealth

Organic composting is filthy business. Facilities flout norms, produce poor quality manure

Long yarn

The cotton story is a tangled tale. In many parts of India, farmers are committing suicide. It's been a while Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and now …

Contaminating millets

There is disquiet over government scheme to wean traditional millet farmers on chemical inputs

Divert, deny, dismiss and damn

Letters

Organic thread

Even as Bt cotton invaded Indian fields in the past few years, some farmer groups kept pushing for organic cotton. In 2009-10, production in …