Poplars spark farmers' fury against Wimco

Area farmers in Uttar Pradesh contend match manufacturer Wimco, which had persuaded them to raise poplar trees for its factory, has reneged on …

Farmers give silver lining to famine clouds

A country where millions have died of starvation can now hope to achieve self-sufficiency in food, with the UN predicting record harvests of …

Maharashtra sugarcane farmers taught green skills

The Mukti Sangharsh Movement is teaching farmers in Maharashtra's sugar belt scientific methods of moving from single-crop, fertiliser-intensive …

Rehabilitating land

Innovative technology and consolidation ofscattered land holdings has made agriculture profitable in UP

When ducks get to work

Employing ducks in the paddy field heralds an era of prosperity for farmers in Japan, and in time worldwide

Corporate farming

Pakistan's proposal to allow multinationals into its agriculture sector may be bad news for the environment

Carrots keep weeds at bay

They grow fast and their foliage blocks sunlight to weeds, farmers in Maharashtra have found  

"Right should belong to scientists"

For the first time in India, the draft of the Plant Varieties Protection (PVP) Act is being finalised by the ministry of agriculture. India, as a …

Simply Put: Walking in the rain

Simply Put: The farmer’s tractor

Simply Put: Santa and the Grinch

Rebranding: an exercise in futility

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Rethink the way we grow food

The world has enough food to feed people; the problem is that much of this food is going into feeding livestock or just to waste. This is what …

COVID 19: Punjab’s rural economy takes a big hit

Small farmers, labourers among the worst-hit; wheat harvest under cloud

The monkey-catcher

Monkeys exact revenge on a naturalist

South Asia

Cool stuff?

Farmers concoct pesticides out of colas

How the Bill took shape

Pesticide scavenger

Modified enzyme neutralises ill-effects of toxic chemicals

Reclaiming retail democracy

With help from worms

Shekhawati farmers in Rajasthan go organic

More forest cover

Nio wrecks the US