The ABCDs of extreme profits by agri-corporations

UN Trade and Development Report reveals volatility in food commodities prices in last few years have coincided with global food traders …

Climate change: Crop yields in Punjab will fall by up to 13% in next 30 years

A study by Punjab Agricultural University used rainfall & temperature data from 35 years to project the impact of climate change on 5 major …

Farm laws repealed in Parliament without discussion

Passed in the Lok Sabha in under 5 minutes; passed in Rajya Sabha after a brief discussion

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

Panel ‘disappointed’ about no data on complaints resolved under PMFBY

The Standing Committee on Agriculture urged the government to maintain records of complaint resolution under the PMFBY, for its effective …

How to end hunger in sub-Saharan Africa: Fight inequality, gender imbalances and climate change

Food sovereignty is very tightly interlinked with social justice and sustainable development.

Making global food systems more sustainable has economic benefits 20 times the cost, finds report

Investing $500 billion per year could reduce diet-related mortality by 36%, save 174 million lives from premature deaths

17 million missing: A DTE analysis sheds light on why India was dealing with milk inflation

India has missed as many as 16.84 million artificial inseminations of cattle and buffaloes during the two years of COVID-19 pandemic. This is …

As told to Parliament (December 23, 2022): Most crop damage due to heavy rains, floods in Karnataka this year

The state saw 1,031,102 hectares of damaged crop area, followed by Assam with 245,837.7 ha  

Water, Marathwada women’s woe: No brides for farmers as families look for city matches

Access to water, better infra drive marriage prospects as women yearn for more 'comfortable' lives

Heavy rains in Bihar, starting from June, waterlogged litchi orchards, killing trees

Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district along with its neighbours, accounts for nearly 40% of India’s litchi production

Fewer farmers benefited from government procurement last Rabi season

Government body recommends increasing procurement of foodgrains from Bihar, UP and Rajasthan  

Bad year for Muzaffarpur’s litchi farmers? High temperature, hot westerly winds result in high fruit drop

Litchi farmers staring at crop loss planning to demand compensation 

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Food production hit, farmers need immediate assistance, says FAO

FAO seeking $25 million for Turkey & $10 million for Syria immediately

Farmers in at least 65 countries rose up in protest since January 2023. Here’s why

Producers in South America, Europe, India, Nepal demand better prices and policies

Heavy sway: Big corporations with power over farmer producer companies is diluting their purpose

Cluster-based business organisation were started to hand-hold small farmers’ businesses, but now control the FPCs instead

When the car drives you: Speed as hierarchy and privilege

What remains of the public if at their best of expressing their disagreement, their gatherings are called “traffic jams”?

Food Systems Summit: ‘Supports to farmers keeping the world away from SDGs and the Paris Agreement’

United Nations calls for repurposing and reforming price-distorting and environmentally harmful supports to farmers

After excess rainfall, now poor prices leave Marathwada cotton farmers in debt

Excess rainfall has caused a loss of about 50 per cent across the cotton belt region

Nano urea in field trials: Ingredients of fertiliser a mystery

The burden of subsidy on fertilisers has increased from Rs 80,000 crore to Rs 2 lakh crore since the Russia-Ukraine war

Jharkhand farmers, tribal areas remain at mercy of lightning

Over 500 died in the last decade due to lightning; Schools say conductors don't work, get stolen 

Shortage of labourers, gunny bags: Punjab in a spot over wheat procurement

The process started April 10, but ran into several hassles on the first 2 days. It has been slow across the state; has not even started at some …

CSE experts explain: Strategies to reduce crop residue burning for air pollution mitigation

Farm residue burning is a serious seasonal problem with severe public health consequences

How will Centre double farmers’ income by next year? Union Budget 2021-22 has no answer

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set the ambitious target in 2016

What do Union budgets mean for long-term agri development in India?

Union & state budgets need to place equal emphasis on sector-wide improvement & individual farmer-centric measures