An attractive Place to go

Tourism's footprint is too big for Leh's infrastructure

A farewell to farms

Ladakh survives on its farms. But can agriculture survive government policies?

Reclaiming Simple Clod

More and more loss

More and more water

More yield per hectare

More and more urea

Fertilisers boost plant growth but imbalanced application soon leads to use-fatigue

Field day

India's soils are in a bad shape. T V Jayan investigates

The China affair what it means to us

Our smaller future

Seeking Food Sovereignty

In court

Letters

Questions over EU plan to label organic food 'GM free'

Letters

Getting the bulletin right

EL Nino and the new challenges

Letters

Letters

An index for monitoring effectiveness of climate-smart agriculture practices: How it can help

Awareness and training was the highest weighted dimension among the five that were used to develop the index

What ails climate-smart agriculture in South Asia? Limited state resources & incentives, unequal tech dissemination

By 2050, South Asia will be one of the largest food-deficit regions & requires substantial increase in production to meet growing food demand

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 …

Less farms and farmers

The agricultural world is undergoing a historic change: the number of farms coming down sharply while size is increasing. Does it imply …

India is at the cusp of a farming revolution through AI

For years, farmers globally have had to make decisions on which crops to plant, based on their forecasts of growing conditions and of market …

Agroforestry, livestock & non-traditional crops: Ground report finds Himalayan farmers adapting to climate change

Irregular rainfall impacting traditional farming; investments into new methods good examples of climate adaptation, say experts

Climate impacts in Angola: Green harvests to be slightly below average, shows analysis

The late and varied pattern of rain is negatively affecting crop growth in Angola, report notes