500,000 cattle dead in Australia floods

Australia’s beef industry is expected to be severely hit and could take several decades to recover

Small towns are collapsing across South Africa. How it’s starting to affect farming

There is growing evidence that governance and service delivery failures are affecting functioning and efficiencies of farming and agribusinesses …

Goats, sheep drive India’s livestock numbers

The number of camels, pigs, donkeys, horses, mules, ponies and indigenous cattle breeds has drastically declined

Sahiwal cattle, the pride of the Subcontinent, is going places in rural Kenya

With its high milk and meat yield, its resistance to drought and diseases, the breed has brought great changes in Kenya’s villages

Odisha’s climate refugees: Satabhaya’s cattle farmers suffer in new homes

The once-prosperous community has been left to fend for itself after losing its rich economy to the ravages of the sea

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 12, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

First yak domesticated 2,500 years ago near the Brahmaputra in Tibet, not far from Indian border: Study

Not only did humans in Bangga domesticate yaks, they also domesticated cattle and created hybrid offsprings by crossing the two

Only the Gir indigenous cow breed is being promoted under Rashtriya Gokul Mission; here is why

Gir is a hardy, adaptable breed with high milk yield and calm disposition; experts however say genetically superior cows should be identified and …

State of Agriculture: Milk Inflation

Milk price in India has scaled rapidly in recent months on the back of unprecedented fodder prices and lumpy disease outbreaks in cattle. This …

Ground report: How is Chhattisgarh’s ‘dung deal’ working

plan to purchase cow dung to boost rural economy, ensure clean villages and solve stray cattle problem saw initial success, but things …

World Camel Day: Rearing as an art of healing

The relationship between camels and their rearers continues to be pronounced by centuries-old customs 

Why I remember DN Jha as an exemplary food historian

His defining work was about a food item whose reality is markedly different from the narrative that has been built around it

Interim Budget 2019: A mention and a few hundred crores for the poor's Kamadhenu

A specific mention spanning over four minutes, and emphasis on livestock hints at the government’s admission of the impact of its anti-…

Centre defers decision to restrict production of yield-boosting hormone for two months

Decision comes after various states said oxytocin is very important to prevent human maternal mortality

Chhattisgarh’s Godhan Nyay: How it aims to revive rural economy, organic farming

A significant number of beneficiaries of the scheme are women and from backward community. Balod, Dhamtari, Durg, Raipur and Rajnadgaon districts …

The importance (and baggage) of ghee

The social standing of ghee is heavier than the health one

Cattle herders in western Rajasthan suffer heavy losses due to Lumpy Skin Disease

Some 749 animals have died of the disease in Jodhpur division alone

To save cows, regulations imposed on drug that helps women with childbirth

Government tries to restrict use of oxytocin as it is also illegally given to cattle to increase milk production

17 million missing: Climate change, government policies could deal lethal blow to Indian dairy sector

In India, dairy is a source of sustenance for millions of small-scale and marginal farmers and consumers. Any decision on it should be scientific

17 million missing: Why was there a fat problem in India’s dairy industry?

Indian dairy farmers now prefer exotic or crossbred cows to indigenous cattle, buffaloes; a crossbred cow has a high milk yield compared to a …

Return of pastoralism: How villagers fought a long battle to regenerate grazing lands, assist herders

With help from civil society organisations, India’s rural population managed to increase their profits from raising cattle

Rice, integral to Madagascar, may be hastening the decline of its unique biodiversity; here is how

Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; most of the plants, animals, insects and fungi found there are not found anywhere else  

World AMR Awareness Week: How ethnoveterinary medicines combat antimicrobial resistance

The biggest USP of ethnoveterinary medicines is that they can be prepared at home; simple ingredients of EVMs can work against several …

Why is north India suffering from a fodder crisis

The rise in wheat straw prices is a combined consequence of an unrelenting summer, water shortage as well as better prices for other crops like …

‘One Health’ key in Zimbabwe’s fight against antimicrobial resistance

Since AMR is a complex problem involving several sectors, Zimbabwe is using the best possible strategy to fight it