Kharif season 2023: Rajasthan plants two times more bajra as India’s paddy acreage drops by 26%
Impact of Cyclone Biparjoy and uneven distribution of monsoon clearly visible on kharif crops
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 26, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Diversify crops, shift rice to places that can support it: Central panel
Low returns and high risks from alternative crops among reasons past efforts failed, says report
Farm Laws: Is MSP guarantee really the elixir that Indian agriculture needs?
Concept is unreasonable and will be detrimental for country’s agricultural system, feel experts
Seeding happy, cleaning air: Farmers adopting non-burn tech give hope
Several Indian states are experimenting with Happy Seeder that cuts and lifts the paddy straw and also improves soil health
COVID-19 vaccine update: AstraZeneca vaccinations should continue, benefits outweigh risks, says WHO
Strategic advisory group of experts on immunization called the one-dose Janssen shot as a safe and lifesaving addition to Pfizer, Moderna and …
Bharat Bandh: Home Minister Amit Shah steps in for talk with farmer leaders
Will meet them Tuesday evening, a day before sixth round of talks between the Union government and farmers on three farm laws
Why are Punjab farmers unhappy despite loan waiver, cash in hand
The issue of farm distress needs to be taken up as a long-term project and should not be looked through the prism of small-term electoral gains
That time of the year
Although health impacts are shouted about, there is still only “little” more appetite for action
Back to basics: COVID-19 labour crunch brings direct seeding of paddy in focus
States have been trying to promote DSR for some time; it is gaining traction now — Since June, when kharif sowing started, 0.7 million ha …
Cotton Curse: Bt Cotton losses by pink bollworm pushing farmers to brink of suicide
Part 1: Recurring losses due to pests in North India compounding farmers’ distress, finds DTE ground report
Fields on fire: Punjab, Haryana farmers start burning paddy stubble to make way for vegetables
NASA shows 222 incidents of stubble burning in September; Amritsar, Tarn Taran hotspots
Delayed paddy plantation has cascading effect on north India’s air pollution: Harvard University
Delhi and other parts of the region can experience lesser pollution if certain districts of Punjab do not delay planting paddy, say researchers
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 8, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
‘What other option do we have?’: Why stubble fires would not die
The happy seeder and super seeder machines are too few in number, a lot of them are defunct: Why farmers set their crops on fire every year
Bumper kharif amid excess stock? Is India staring at hard agri decisions
Restrict procurement from Punjab and Haryana; stop procuring from states offering bonus on MSP; divert excessive stock for ethanol and cattle feed
Maharashtra consumed the most chemical pesticides in 5 years: Report
Pesticide consumption in India grew by 13.07 per cent in India between 2014-15 and 2017-18
Eye-opening study on Punjab's rural women labourers poses many questions in poll season
High debts, sexual exploitation, gender disparity, caste discrimination and exclusion from the political process continue to bedevil these mostly …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 3, 2024)
Groundwater in 12 Indian states found to be contaminated with uranium
Nearly 29%, or about 3 in every 10 wells tested in Punjab, is contaminated with uranium
‘Grains not stored properly in FCI godown, rotting food creating pest hazard’
NGT orders probe into biological hazard at Punjab storage, forms joint panel
Why was post-Diwali air quality better this year?
Wind speed, warmer temperatures helped disperse pollutants
Diwali pollution: Delhi air quality to be in ‘poor’ & ‘very poor’ categories today, tomorrow
Fire count due to stubble burning low over northwest Delhi as on October 23
Illnesses were behind half the suicides in Punjab in 2021
Healthcare costs too high, farmers at risk due to pesticide use says expert
What will Supreme Court judgement on Aravalli mean for forest conservation?
Changes to conservation rules may be fast tracked, say activists