Simply Put: Farmers and the Chessplayer

Simply Put: Farmers’s safety net

Simply Put: What a New Deal!

Payment for ecosystem services can be a tool for guaranteed farm income: experts

According to experts, farmers should be paid for the ecosystem services they provide

Work capacity of farm labourers in key food-producing areas to reduce with rising temperatures, shows study

Physical work capacity begins to decline around 20°C ambient temperature & further diminishes as temperature, humidity & exposure to …

Fairtrade: Study finds premium label does not always benefit workers on South African wine farms

Most of the 30 farmworkers interviewed were not even aware that the farm they worked on was Fairtrade certified

From snake charmers to agricultural labourers: A case of Haryana’s Saperas

They still carry the stigma of being a de-notified tribe; also, the law prohibits the catching of snakes now, they say

A farmer becomes a labourer

The challenge for doubling farmers’ income is this foundational change in the economy of an agricultural household  

As told to Parliament (June 25, 2019): Fewer claim settlements didn't affect farmers

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Peanut shells can clean water

Simply Put: Farmers’ anger has not yet blown over

Government programmes to increase yield, better seeds will aid production of pulses

The demand for pulses by 2030 will be 32.64 million tonnes

WATCH: Kisan Sansad or farmers’ parliament starts at Delhi's Jantar Mantar

The farmers want the centre to take back the three controversial farm laws

Simply Put: Double trouble

Cellulose nanofibres from bagasse can help in controlled release of pesticides

This could pose as a solution to the growing problem of micro-plastic pollution

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In bad taste

EPA's animal farm air quality improvement plan

Farmers’ protests increased five times in India from 2017-2021: CSE

The number of protests rose to 165 across 22 states in 2020-21 from 34 across 15 states in 2017

Govt says farmers' incomes more than doubled; but doesn't give any number

Last week, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah sought support from Agricultural Rural Development Banks to fulfil Modi’s vision …

The future of Indian agriculture

There is a need for work on cost-effective technologies with environmental protection and on conserving our natural resources

Simply Put: What makes farmers so firm in protest

Thousands of farmers have thronged the borders of Delhi to have their say against laws that would affect their lives and livelihood.

Do public protests decide election results?

Research gives a mixed verdict but given India’s socio-economic reality, protests do impact election results

Forests are on fire, a little more every day

As many as 35,888 forest fires took place in 2017, which is the highest in the last 14 years

Agriculture as part of climate mitigation and adaptation

The agriculture sector contributes up to 25 per cent of the total anthropogenic emissions

The minuscule system of pricing

First, a farmer must sell the produce at a price wrongly discounted by unscientific calculation. Second, an unholy nexus of many players pushes …