Heavy sway: Big corporations with power over farmer producer companies is diluting their purpose
Cluster-based business organisation were started to hand-hold small farmers’ businesses, but now control the FPCs instead
Simply Put: Victims of Lakhimpur violence
How COVID-19 controls hit farmers in 7 low-income countries, most in Africa
In countries with strictest controls, 80% smallholder households reported major disruptions
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
Back to nature: Immense need for crop diversification and role of agroforestry
Input cost to increase productivity has increased over the last five decades
Government programmes to increase yield, better seeds will aid production of pulses
The demand for pulses by 2030 will be 32.64 million tonnes
India’s leadership in climate resilience is rooted in its agrarian landscapes
Scaling up adaptation for farmers is a human, environmental, and economic imperative
What is behind fertiliser shortage in Andhra Pradesh
The crisis has forced farmers to buy from black market at exorbitent prices
Roots of health: How a simple processing method helps turmeric farmers earn more
Minimum processing would ensure that the benefits of turmeric are retained
Child labour on farms in Africa: It’s important to make a distinction between what’s harmful, and what isn’t
Reframing the debate about child labour in African agriculture, and how best to address it, is particularly timely
Sri Lanka’s inorganic transition to organic farming
Sri Lanka's decision to move to organic farming is not behind its food shortage given that a majority of the farmers have not even started the …
Water, Marathwada women’s woe: Inclement weather affecting farmers’ mental health, social standing
Market does not support the farmers even if they manage to harvest the crops
Andhra farmers turn masons, milkmen despite state getting ‘decent’ rain; here is why
They blame lack of remuneration, rising input costs and accumulating debt
Farmyard manure in natural farming leads to higher yield than conventional method: Study
Natural farming was perceived to be more labour intensive & regular monitoring by farmers was required, survey in three states finds
Some 85% districts in India now face arid conditions
At least 196 districts are in the grip of a ‘severe’ degree of dryness and 65 of these are in Uttar Pradesh
Group farming can transform agriculture post - COVID-19
Small and landless farmers are reviving group farming to combat the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Bina Agarwal, professor of …
Surface irrigation may encourage monocropping: Evidence from Telangana holds lessons for India
Providing farm households with new irrigation facilities that improve groundwater table also significantly enhances farm profits
1 out of 3 farmers are tenants in Telangana; are excluded from any government support
The Telangana government has declared its flagship cash transfer scheme to be for the support of farmers; but the money goes to landowners
Why farmers in northern Ghana go to bed hungry
Rural food systems need to be transformed into productive, profitable activities for farming households
March-April heatwave impacted agriculture in 9 Indian states: ICAR report
Heatwaves resulted in poor vegetative and retarded growth, pest infestation like fall army and whitefly attacks and viral infections in crops and …
National Handloom Day: 98% funds allocated by Centre used in 3 years
0.1 million weavers taken on board on government portal to enable weavers to market and sell produce; Union govt plans to introduce new schemes
How millet production can empower women farmers, strengthen agriculture
Boosting initiatives around millet value chain is one of the most effective ways to address agricultural challenges
Centre offers to put farm laws on ‘hold’ for a year
Farmers will study proposal and get back; Centre also withdraws pleas against tractor rally
Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic farming
The purely organic method of growing food involves dividing the land into zones for cereal crops, vegetables, fruiting trees and animal husbandry
Climate crisis: Inequality hotspot study shows where women in agriculture are hit hardest
India stood 12th on the climate change risk index in agrifood systems