Farmer suicides increase for every 1°C rise in temperature during growing season: study
Temperature and precipitation deviations during the growing season have a distinct impact on suicide rates in the country
Is government manipulating agriculture data?
Government’s policy decisions and ground reports are in conflict with official data on sowing, production and agriculture insurance
Women play vital role in agrifood systems across Latin America and the Caribbean
In most rural households, women play a definitive role in agriculture and other allied activities. Thus, including women under the social …
How is climate change affecting crop pests and diseases?
The dynamics of crop diseases and pest influx are changing rapidly due to changing climate. Managing them has, therefore, become a huge challenge
How will the drought in India affect food prices worldwide?
Cristina Coslet is Country Monitor, Far East Asia at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Hollowed out
Coniferous forests of Alaska are being devoured by beetles. Ecologists blame the changing climatic conditions
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
Apple orchardists in Himachal worry after unseasonal rain and snow kill Italian honeybees
Apple, stone fruit growers rent Italian bees from apiarists for pollination of their crops in April
GM mustard effect: Private firm now seeks Bt brinjal trials
Maharashtra-based seed company has developed 2 Bt brinjal varieties, offers resistance to pests
Not a waste until wasted
Punjab farmers burn straw after harvest. It is time to exploit the potential of this agro-waste
Plant treaty: Ways to benefit custodians of agricultural biodiversity in focus
Treaty calls on nations to protect, promote their rights to save and use traditional seeds
India lost crops on 18 million hectares to extreme floods from 2017-2019: Govt
Madhya Pradesh hardest-hit; figures show gross underestimation of crop losses due to floods
70-80% Indian farmers depend on groundwater; solar irrigation inadequate to change crop choices: Report
Policies favouring growth of staple water-intensive cereal crops in different states have played major role in irrigation expansion
Karnataka coffee farmers selling estates, killing themselves: Report
Market prices, erratic weather and increasing input costs are making coffee cultivation unviable, it notes
Farmers on hunger strike in Sambalpur due to non-payment of crop insurance
Insurance claims were to be paid nine months ago but insurer Reliance General Insurance Company did not accept the government report on crop loss
Urbanisation, changing cropping patterns contribute to temperature rise: Study
Shift from kharif to rabi has led to warming of up to 30 per cent in many regions, says a researcher from IIT Bhubaneswar
Birds impacting agricultural crops a major concern
Many avian species damage crops during sowing, seedling and ripening stages, leading to economic losses to farmers
'Thinking Glocal to solve India's paddy-straw burning crisis'
Since we live in an increasingly globalised world, we must make an attempt to seek global solutions to our local problem of paddy straw burning
Snowfall in Himachal Pradesh: A tourist’s paradise, a farmer’s curse
In times of climate change, untimely snowfall is damaging crops and causing crop illnesses
'The Sarus appears to be altering its nesting behaviour due to climate change'
K S Gopi Sundar, a well-known expert on cranes, recently conducted a study on how climate change and cropping patterns affect the nesting cycles …
Crop residue burning in North affecting rest of India too: study
Emissions from crop stubble burning in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh are increasingly spreading towards central, southern states &…
Delhi should follow Beijing's example in tackling air pollution
Now is the time for India to peer through the smog and learn how Beijing is taking meaningful steps to address air pollution crisis
Phosphorus is vital for life on Earth – and we’re running low
The fact that more than 70 per cent of the global phosphorus supply comes from a single location is problematic
Official data exposes Centre’s inflated claims on success of agriculture insurance scheme
The number of non-loanee farmers opting for insurance reached 9.7 million in kharif season of 2016 as against 9.8 million in the same period in …
Wanted, tariff revision
Biomass power plant owners say they cannot manage with power rates fixed when they began operations