In a ‘first’, Australian scientists grow marine worms in wastewater

Farmers use marine worms to feed prawns. Till now, growing them has been a difficult and expensive task

Treated like cattle

A drawn out court case raises questions about India's animal quarantine managers

Global wind energy sector needs four-fold higher growth to meet 2050 Net Zero goal: Report

Offshore wind market showed highest growth in 2021

Fortified protection

Maharashtra to dispose of rotten imported wheat

Today's menu: dioxins

Belgium authorities found carcinogenic dioxins in food products. And they brushed the matter under the carpet. Now, Europe is facing an …

Food security for livestock

Focus must shift from supercows to cattlefeed  

Guar mine

Farmers in Rajasthan make big bucks as shale gas rush boosts demand for little-known cluster bean

Is it safe?

Today every European and some Asians are asking themselves: How safe is the food we eat?

Half of the world’s hungry people live in Asia-Pacific; Southern Asia worst affected: FAO

Higher food, feed, and fuel prices, combined with a slow recovery from COVID-19 pandemic to blame; women fared worse in food insecurity

Medicinal plants help animals digest better

Got Fodder?

Manju and Mukesh Gupta have had to reduce their milk intake because the two rupee per litre milk price hike has become too much of an expense. …

Deadly compound

Now, even babies are being exposed to the cancer-causing dioxin

Banking on variety

Himachal villagers resist pine monoculture, reclaim forests for fodder

High cost of fodder led milk price hike

First pulses, now milk. The common household is compelled to give up on its easy sources of protein. RAVLEEN KAUR found rise in fodder prices, …

Why is fodder so expensive?

Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling  

Burden of beast

Mounting economic pressures cast a dark shadow on the future of camels and their traditional breeders in Rajasthan

Act before vicious cycle sets in

Without a grazing policy the goat economy can go bust

Nature cure from India

US drug authority rejects plea to ban antibiotics in animal feed

Claims withdrawal process expensive and resource intensive

Chicken comes home to roost

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

SUBSIDISED KILLING

They may survive the drought. But they cannot survive government policies. When people have to abandon their livestock, they are reduced to misery,…

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