Shepherds in distress: No procurement by J&K Wool Board since 2019 as COVID-19 mars market

The sector was already in bad shape with the country’s growing reliance on imported wool 

Shear desperation: How can India’s wool sector be revived

India’s once thriving wool economy now depends on imports to sustain demand. Will the recent import of Australian Merino sheep for …

In photos: Hard times for India’s wool industry

India’s wool industry may have set off on a decline: Degrading pastureland and an increase in agricultural activity has affected sheep herding …

Shawls, an antelope and the law

The question is not just of farming chiru. It is about the policy that a country should have towards wildlife conservation, forest dwelling …

Salted lands of Australia

Bad cropping practices and ill-planned water management leads to salted Australian farmland

Women’s Day 2024: Ladakh’s looms of life

Changpa women engender an economic turnaround by taking over the trade chain of the world’s most expensive fibre 

Genetic shearing

Shearers poisoned

Antelope wool confiscated

Piloting extinction

Not par for the coarse

Production of milk, meat and eggs increased in 2016 rainy season

The production of wool decreased during the same period of July 1 to October 31, 2016

Focus shifts to man-made fibre

Farmers sidelined in draft national fibre policy

Wildlife harvesting

Sustainable harvesting of chiru may help save the Tibetan antelope

Jobs and the environment

South Asia

Uneasy truce for animal rights group