These three areas in and around Delhi give tell-tale accounts of the state of affairs pan-India
Three areas narrate three different stories. Palanpur village, in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district, has been a subject for researchers …
Shift grain bowl status from North to other regions of India
Balwinder Singh Sidhu, agriculture commissioner and chief conservator of soils in Punjab, is known for giving his opinion in a frank and …
Technology interventions that save water
It was early June. Jaspal Ram of Lehra Turkot in district Bathinda of Punjab was busy in his field putting gunny bags filled with mud on a plank …
Don't need subsidies, give us the right price
For most Indians, Mahendra Singh Tikait is the man who brought Delhi to its knees in 1988 with a rally that brought the national capital face to …
Maize Mania
Maize has become the queen of cereals, courted by state governments, seed companies, farmers and the feedstock and starch industries as the crop …
Saving rice
Rice is at the heart of a fierce strategy debate as the country prepares to launch the second Green Revolution in the eastern states. …
Will Paul Ehrlich's prediction finally come true?
The Green Revolution may have prevented the fate that was forecasted for a world bursting at the seams and unable to feed itself. But unlimited …
Green Revolution lab Jaunti shows agriculture in crisis now
Five decades after the green revolution, Down To Earth visited the village from where it all started, to assess the agrarian crisis …
How farmers united in Punjab and Haryana during the 2023 floods
For every farmer whose crop has been ruined, there is another one who is sending him saplings from hundreds of kilometres away
Do we have the answers?
Troubled by the growing farmer unrest, M S Swaminathan, father of India's Green Revolution, raises a few questions for the country's agriculture …
Three crops rule the world: What it means for the planet’s wildlife
Over-dependence on wheat, maize and rice threatens the future of wildlife survival and global food security
Desertification in India: How Green Revolution hastened the man-made soil degradation
The biggest threat of desertification emanates from the major crops of the Green Revolution — wheat and paddy
The zero budget farming discord
There is unease over the crusader of natural farming, Subhash Palekar, for renaming the technique after himself
Overpopulation is not the source of all our ills
In these times of climate change, the world needs fresh ideas to get out of the logjam over whether population is a curse or a resource
Scientists discover new drought-resilient wheat gene, suitable for drier soil conditions
The next step for will be to test how this gene works in diverse agronomic environments from the UK to Australia
Should farmers get steady income?
Farmers have rarely been considered eligible for payment for various ecological services. The old concept of Payment for Ecosystem Services can …
Punjab is usually blamed for burning paddy stubble; here is the back story to that
Paddy farming in Punjab was started to meet the food grain requirements of the country for which the state has been forced to pay a …
Why India needs to bring back nature-positive farming
The pandemic showed that human interventions in natural processes can have disastrous consequences; we should now scale up natural-positive food …
Independent India @ 75: It has taken a lot to be food-secure
From begging other countries for food to overflowing grain stocks, it has been a long journey; however, the government must adopt environment-…
EU subsidies benefit big farms while underfunding greener and poorer plots
At least 24 billion Euros a year goes to support incomes in the richest farming regions of the EU with the fewest farm jobs
Punjab Assembly Elections 2022: Ignoring the groundwater depletion problem
Blaming farmers alone won’t work; prices for crops other than paddy must be remunerative
Millet might: Here is how Odisha can succeed in reviving these cereals lost to the Green Revolution
Odisha’s mission to bring millets back to its fields and plates needs greater marketing support and promotion beyond tribal areas
Africa’s green revolution initiative has faltered: Why other ways must be found
There has been a 25% increase from 2019 to 2020 in the number of severely undernourished people in the world
MS Swaminathan, a legend who will live on
Swaminathan will go down in history as the person who pulled India out of the ‘hunger trap’. This was the biggest achievement of the …
How balanced soil nutrient management can save Indian agriculture
The ill-effects of imbalanced application of fertilisers — which leads to soil sickness, decline in soil health and reduces crop …