Sweet victory

UPs cane farmers get to quote their price in a sellers market

Singur echoes in UP farms

Proposed freight corridor will displace 30 villages

Simply put: How are politicians and people feeling these elections?

Simply put: Manifesto, a mirror image

Nearly 85% rural women are engaged in agriculture but only 13% own land

Unseasonal rains, hailstorms damage over 18,000 hectares of agricultural land in Maharashtra

IMD predicts conditions to continue through March 19

Simply Put: UFO farmers

Deadlock: Centre asks farmer unions to get back within a day on proposal to ‘hold’ laws

Farmers to decide on next step as government puts ball in their court

Why rich and poor farmers demand MSP, government intervention in market

Agriculture not possible without government support, rue farmers 

New policy to revive agroforestry

The National Agroforestry Policy 2014 can substantially reduce poverty in rural India

Vital drip

A farmer in Madhya Pradesh uses discarded saline bottles to irrigate fields

Gujarat passes groundwater bill

The legislation makes it mandatory for farmers to get licence for extracting water

Gujarat passes groundwater bill

The legislation makes it mandatory for farmers to get licence for extracting water

Farmers shun cotton

Delayed monsoons, high input cost make farmers shift to guar, groundnut and pulses

Monsanto pulled up

AD>> GM Crops • India

Maharashtra amends water law

Agriculture gets priority over industry, farmer-friendly clauses dropped

Wheat export likely

Government expects record production

Facilitator or barrier?

Doubts linger as India prepares to ratify two global plant pacts

Collective spirit an Indian myth or policy failure?

Not ready for rabi

Sugarcane stir

Rs 32,000 crore for public relations

Deschooling farmers

Bt contaminating organic cotton

Bt traces in 30% organic cotton garments; may hit exports

Tracking locust attack: Cotton crop spread over 700 hectares destroyed in Bikaner

Farmers in a dilemma with no income to pay for living expenses as well as debt