Crop risks, environmental damages, hunger and the 2020 farm laws
Improved access to new markets, better yields and higher income need to safeguard environmental sustainability and farmers’ indebtedness
Economic stimulus package on Day 3 a repetition of budget: Experts
The announcement included some major policy shifts that may have far-reaching consequences
Lighting up the fields: How electricity can help irrigation
Over the years, inaccurate estimations of electricity consumption have led to untargeted approaches being applied to optimise power sector
Fishing, agriculture impacted by burning river in Upper Assam: Residents
They alleged the administration was slow to respond to the crisis as the affected area had been supporting anti-CAA protestors
Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?
Even if they achieve high profitability, actual value generated on a small farm will translate into only a small gain in income per capita
Telangana farmers in trouble after unseasonal rains destroy crops
Most districts of the state registered a huge rainfall excess in September, which affected paddy, maize and cotton crops
Why the new farm laws will not level the playing field
Creation of unregulated private points of sale will only ensure that the produce continues to be sold as before — at below MSP and without …
Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic farming
The purely organic method of growing food involves dividing the land into zones for cereal crops, vegetables, fruiting trees and animal husbandry
One farmer/farm labourer dies by suicide every hour in India: NCRB data
An emerging and worrying trend from the NCRB data was that deaths by suicide of agricultural labourers was higher than cultivators
Three years on, only 15% of Rs 1 lakh crore agri infrastructure fund disbursed
The scheme was launched in 2020 for the development of post-harvest infrastructure
African swine fever: Kerala to buy all healthy pigs to help farmers after Wayanad outbreak
Some 360 pigs culled last weekend after detection of disease on two farms in Wayanad
Locust attack: Govt caught completely unawares, minister admits
Instead of taking accountability, Rajasthan, Centre, blame each other, Pakistan
Locust attack: Swarms pose most serious threat since 1993
Area measuring 370,000 hectares in Gujarat and Rajasthan affected
How accurate long-range forecasts of monsoon onset can be climate adaptation tool for farmers
Study looks into farmers’ behaviour based on forecast information, insurance in 250 Telangana villages
Maharashtra: No brides for Marathwada farmers
City jobs and owner of farm land — prerequisites for prospective grooms have changed
Amid cold, heat, suicides, January 26, COVID-19, farmer protests complete 6 months
The farmers protesting on Delhi’s borders observed May 26 as a ‘Black Day’ and vowed to continue the protests
DTE tracks trafficking: Droughts, migrating parents leave Marathwada girls vulnerable
Sugarcane cutters’ children at high risk, targeted through proxy marriages
Three things scientists don’t know about women farmers and climate change but really should
Ensuring climate solutions work for both women & men farmers should be high priority at Bonn Climate Change Conference
A land imagined: Indigenous crops help Marathwada women in adding to family nutrition
Women in Maharashtra's Marathwada region reclaim parts of their farmland to grow produce of choice and to ensure nutrition security of their …
Historic win for farmer seed rights: PepsiCo’s IPR on potato variety revoked
Judgement against Pepsico potato variety sets precedent for all seed and food and beverages corporations not to transgress farmers’ seed …
What Bhutan got right about happiness, and what other countries can learn
Bhutan has recorded an average growth in annual GDP of 7.5% since the early 1980s; poverty levels have declined from 36% in 2007 to 10% in 2019
A grass native to Africa could transform the continent’s dairy yields. Here’s how
Brachiaria has been instrumental to the beef industry’s success in the tropical Americas
June-August dry spell, heavy September rain signs of climate change: Odisha experts
Erratic rainfall, floods, water-logging, cyclones and sea erosion are factors that make Odisha a state highly exposed to climate change,…
COVID-19: Dip in milk sales leave 1.5 million farmers in the lurch in Odisha
Several milk purchasing firms have either stopped lifting milk products or reduced the share of products they used to buy following a two-week …
We will continue, let govt set up COVID-testing centres here: Farmers protesting at Delhi’s borders
Farm leaders ask protestors to beware of COVID-19 while plannign to beef up protests