Farmers threaten to block essential supplies across India over RCEP

Farmer organisations burnt the effigy of Union minister Piyush Goyal at Jantar Mantar and called for protests across India in the coming days …

Back to the breast

Many organisations in the country are working at weaning parents from the bottle to mother's milk

Ruminant remedy

A new technique for early detection of mastitis in cows has been developed by British researchers

A glass a day keeps cancer at bay

Whole milk from cows fed on an enriched diet could save humans from the risk of developing cancer

Scientists at Arizona State University discover potentially-harmful nanoparticles in baby formula

A new research suggests presence of nanomaterials in baby food can cause DNA and chromosomal damage, organ damage and genital malformations

Calcium wonders

A glass of milk a day may stand between you and colon cancer

Toxic potion

Contaminated milk

High levels of flame retardants present

State of Agriculture: Milk Inflation

Milk price in India has scaled rapidly in recent months on the back of unprecedented fodder prices and lumpy disease outbreaks in cattle. This …

Five points on food inflation and onions

Retail inflation hitting double digit being attributed to high food prices, but is it so?

Whose home is it, anyway?

The Maldharis of the Gir national park face eviction because their "unsustainable" economy if threatening the Asiatic lion

No milking the super-cows

The European Community has opposed injecting cows with the controversial hormone bovine somatrophin to boost milk production

New milky way

Private players are entering the Indian dairy market in a big way. Dairy cooperatives, which ushered in the White Revolution, need to expand and …

Most Indians drinking adulterated milk, finds FSSAI survey

70 per cent milk samples collected across the country by food safety authority did not conform to standards

Ex-Unicef head joins Nestle

Nutrition campaign groups worried, say Unicef supports breastfeeding while Nestle undermines it

‘There is not enough milk’

Amrita Patel was part of the White Revolution that made India self-sufficient in milk. She joined Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’…

Utterly unbutterly

Politicians dip their greasy palms into a successful cooperative venture to corner the cream

SYNTHETIC MILK

Should children drink beer?

A campaign against dairy products has been launched by an overzealous NGO

Lethal cocktail

Hostel food kills 5

Emic perspective of Indian food reveals untold stories of migrant labourers, women, cattle

Food anthropologist Ishita Dey on how migrant labourers adapt their diets during their long train journeys and how sugar is key even in a more …

17 million missing: Why was there a fat problem in India’s dairy industry?

Indian dairy farmers now prefer exotic or crossbred cows to indigenous cattle, buffaloes; a crossbred cow has a high milk yield compared to a …

Coffee: here’s the carbon cost of your daily cup – and how to make it climate-friendly

Using less fertiliser, managing water and energy use more efficiently during milling and exporting the beans by cargo ship rather than aeroplane …

‘There is no camel community for Australia’s camels’

Down To Earth speaks to well-known camel expert Ilse Kohler-Rollefson on Australia’s recent plans to cull 10,000 camels