El Nino-induced drought leaves Africa dry and hungry

El Nino-induced drought in Africa has destroyed crops, challenged food security and caused cattle deaths. Ahead of the African Drought Conference …

Researchers study behavioural aspect of farmer suicides

One of the major causes behind suicidal intent is depression, experts find while studying cases in Punjab, Telangana and Maharashtra

Point of no Agri-return

Exploring India's unprecedented agrarian crisis

Death of the Nile? Mega dams have killed the river’s ability to flush carcinogens, slowly killing its delta

Much of the contamination by heavy metals is irreversible, but science-based conservation measures could help, study claims

Latest in farmer woes: Heavy unseasonal rain, pending payouts from Centre’s crop insurance scheme

523,000 hectares in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh affected by untimely rains in March, April

Punctured cover: India's crop insurance scheme loses sheen

Insurers withdraw from Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana as extreme weather events spike claim rates resulting in heavy losses

Extreme rainfall damages nearly 4 million hectares of crops in Marathwada

Incessant rains through the month of August and September have affected 4.48 million farmers this season

Does 2017 Tamil Nadu budget address water crisis, agrarian distress?

While government allocates fund for conservation of water bodies, farmers say their concerns not allayed

UN seeks response to deal with El Niño effect; urges preparedness to deal with La Niña

The UN estimates that the number of people affected by the combined impacts of El Niño and La Niña could top 100 million

Odisha’s deadly farmlands: Another farmer commits suicides due to crop loss

Between 2001 and 2010, over 2,600 farmers committed suicide in Odisha and this year, drought has already broken their economic backbone

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is a good scheme with flawed execution, says CSE

Agriculture insurance is recognised as an important part of the safety net for farmers to deal with the impacts of extreme and unseasonal weather

Explainer: What is the Farmers Distress Index?

The index will try to anticipate this distress and prevent its spread from a few farmers to the village or block level

Southern African drought primarily driven by El Nino, massive blow to food security, health: Study 

Researchers recommend enhanced resilience to droughts that may occur twice as frequently in El Nino years

Climate crisis threatens truffle production but could put UK species back on the menu

Summer drought & heat can be detrimental to truffle harvests

Alien pest invades farmlands in Africa, destroys crops in more than 10 countries

Unlike the native pest, the fall armyworm from the Americas is harder to detect and eradicate

Nowhere to go: How exposure to coal dust has impacted lives in Odisha’s mining villages

From health hazards to crop loss — the residents of Ratanpur, Ratansara, Shiarmal & Dulinga villages face many perils

30% of India’s land area experiencing different degrees of drought, data shows

In August, India recorded a rainfall deficit of 36% 

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

Wheat crisis: All eyes on weather as mercury shoots up in February

Farmers worry about a repeat of last year even as Centre claims record production for this year

COVID-19: Bihar's standing rabi wheat, maize under lockdown

Delay in harvesting standing crops of wheat and maize on over 7 million ha in Bihar will be disastrous for farmers     

Large-scale germination failure in soybean, Maharashtra farmers hit hard

Could speed up decline of the crop in the region

Flat in 20 days

Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish hailstorms in central and north India in February and …