Food security for livestock

Focus must shift from supercows to cattlefeed  

A pair too rare

Gaolao breed of cattle is cherished for its capacity to carry load and quality milk, but only 3,000 of them are left

Ban on grazing hits Raikas community hard

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. …

Fodder scam: Lalu gets five years in jail

BJP leaders of Bihar say judgement will act as a corruption cleaner

Cattle deaths at Bt cotton fields trigger biosafety fear

Bihar rocked by more scams, financial irregularities worth Rs 10,000 crore

Comptroller and Auditor General's report shows Rs 7,900 crore outstanding advances for 'education for all' programme but absence of receipts made …

Monsoon-friendly Assam reeling under drought

Banking on variety

Himachal villagers resist pine monoculture, reclaim forests for fodder

Starved of fodder

Marathwada has been struggling with acute fodder shortage, but the state government has not taken any step to counter the problem

Forest commission report on forest rights bill validates government's stand

Forest commission fails to innovate

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, …

Biomass market in a flux

Biomass power generation started with a bang 10 years ago. Plant owners, Ruhi Kandhari and Aparna Pallavi met say the picture is not that …

Why is fodder so expensive?

Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling  

The goat gamble

It has been a slow and steady shift over decades. Forced by declining returns from farming in ecologically fragile areas, small farmers have been …

Act before vicious cycle sets in

Without a grazing policy the goat economy can go bust

Hunters turn protectors

Traditional hunters Phase Pardhis are part of an initiative to save critically endangered lesser floricans

Bamboo flowering

People in northeast India fear bamboo flowering. According to an ancient belief when bamboos flower, there is death and destruction.

Rajasthan opens farm gates

State ties up with Monsanto, other biotech giants to restructure agriculture

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,…

Now what?

Rolling on

Now what?