Simply Put: Cow and its national food

Simply put: Cow in time of COVID-19

Simply Put: Bovid COVID diet

Homegrown benefit: Why ‘desi’ should be the catchword for India’s dairy sector

A shift from exotic and crossbred cattle to indigenous breeds that are better adapted to changing climate and resistant to diseases will help the …

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 …

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 …

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

Centre withdraws proposed livestock bill amid criticism

The proposed bill will open floodgates for an unregulated import and export of animals and also spoil the gene pool of native animals, say activists

Lakshadweep: ‘New laws calculated effort to alter habits of people evolved over generations’

Changing land laws and bringing in outside corporates could change the very character of fragile Lakshadweep

A grass native to Africa could transform the continent’s dairy yields. Here’s how

Brachiaria has been instrumental to the beef industry’s success in the tropical Americas

World Milk Day: Salinity hits milk production in Odisha’s seaside villages

Milkmen earlier sold milk products, including cheese, curd. They are now unable to arrange fodder for their cows

Bird flu has been circulating among cows in US for months: Genome study reveals multiple mutations

Genomic analysis shows occasional jumping back of virus from infected cows to birds and cats, suggesting multi-host outbreak

Simply Put: COVID-19 and cow urine

Wild spread of lumpy skin disease in Rajasthan may have been triggered by climate change

Vectors of the viral disease thrive during periods of heavy rainfall like the kind the state witnessed this year

Ground report from Gurrampanuku: This Andhra village ditched chemical fertilisers for cow urine

Ideation by an NGO, a little funding, collective labour help farmers in Vishakhapatnam go natural

Lumpy disease: 35,000 cattle killed in 9 states

Multiplication of vectors, stray cattle main reasons behind spread

Declare lumpy skin an epidemic, say Uttar Pradesh cattle owners; seek aid

Experts say mortality rate may have gone up to 10-15%, WHO has to declare the disease an epidemic first 

Maldharis demand FRA titles over grasslands

Gujarat forest department's working plan denies pastoral community their customary grazing rights over Banni

Stray cattle menace: UP farmers refuse to diversify crops over depredation

Abandoned cows prefer new, different crops but losses equally distributed if everyone plants sugarcane, say farmers