High-yield, low agro-diversity

Green Revolution crops have also snuffed out farmers' wisdom in the Western Himalaya

WEST AFRICA

Prop review

Panel set up to study MSPs

Symbiotic salvage operation

New Malayalam book charts traditional aggro practices

Chinese aggro

India lagging behind due to bad practices

Climate change impact on agriculture: 50 million to be poor by 2030, says UN body

Rising displacement due to disasters fuelling more conflicts

Flight of extinction

European farmland birds are dying out due to highly mechanised agricultural practices

Half-baked

Plan for drought-proofing

Agriculture key to achieving lasting peace in Central African Republic

The agriculture sector is the backbone of the country’s economy

Back to basics

Old wine in a new bottle

Leguminous trees rather than plants are a better option for improving soil fertility

Less efforts, more gains

Scientists develop device to help farmers from developing nations

Biased bill

Duping pests

Pesticides are not the only way

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Food production hit, farmers need immediate assistance, says FAO

FAO seeking $25 million for Turkey & $10 million for Syria immediately

Herb farming

Profit from an acre

Innovative farming system revives a farmer's fortune in Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu

Cultivating Europe

Middle Eastern farmers carried agriculture to the West

Stiff resistance

Of plants and bees

Depleting honeybees threaten biodiversity

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

Why do farmers have to die?