Can green mean free?

An old elegy for a new season

Assurance of a normal monsoon doesn’t decide agricultural performance anymore

Biting drought fuels human-wildlife conflicts in Kenya, Horn of Africa

Ongoing dry spell displaces wildlife from their habitats in search of pasture and water

Minimum support price: Centre forms panel to consider legal guarantee

Committee to look into zero-budget farming, cropping pattern 

Organic way to a bumper crop

The energy divide

Chronic power deprivation in some districts raises serious policy issues

WWF: 32 million acres of grasslands across US & Canadian Great Plains ploughed up since 2012

Destruction of grasslands across Great Plains continues at an unsustainable pace

Highlights of the monsoon session: what the Parliament discussed

Important discussions and reports tabled in the Parliament in from July 17 to August 11

Government to take a decision on GM Mustard by September

The Supreme Court will hear petitions against the commercial release of the crop then

Another hailstorm in Maharashtra, claims lives of two

Ready-to-harvest crops damaged, farmers fear orchards may not regenerate

Untimely rains, hailstorm kill 22 people in Andhra Pradesh

Crops on over 250,000 hectares destroyed in continuous downpour

"Farmers' wisdom must be on paper in era of patents"

Science & Technology - Briefs

Bt for Better Times?

Good weather, illegal Bt seeds raise Punjab's sagging cotton yields

Maharashtra grape farmers worried as unseasonal rains, hail wipe out 50,000 acres of vineyards

Almost 25 per cent of the export has been affected, claim farmers

Data on sugarcane in Maharashtra after floods shows why accurate assessment is critical

Pollution destroys crops

Scientists get legal notice for highlighting health hazards of endosulfan

Excel Crop Care asks them to withdraw report, apologise publicly by July 28

Not a cakewalk

Bottlenecks and hassles confront the Indian organic producers

Women, children worst victims of indoor air pollution

Cash-strapped cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast struggle with poor harvest

Erratic weather blamed for low quality of beans

After excess rainfall, now poor prices leave Marathwada cotton farmers in debt

Excess rainfall has caused a loss of about 50 per cent across the cotton belt region

Unexpected ‘snow’ covering Assam town hail deposits: Experts

Freakish storm damages 4,000 houses in Moran; Rabi crops affected

Rajasthan bans GM trials

Bureaucrats sit on file, while GM mustard sails through

El Niño to disrupt rainfall, reduce crop harvests in Africa, East Asia: scientists

Extensive loss of beans, potatoes and maize are expected in parts of Kenya