A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006
Mangoes lost 150 years ago
A treasure too good to lose
Too costly to grow
Paan loses flavour
Iconic paan no more appeals to farmers, traders and common people. They say the contagious spread of chewing tobacco, ...
Drought hit
Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year
With help from worms
Shekhawati farmers in Rajasthan go organic
Cancun clinches deal—for polluters
Cancun has restored the sanctity of multilateral negotiations under the UN climate convention. People had lost faith in it ...
Non-existent check post
National Green Tribunal fails to start, project clearances continue
State of endosulfan
Ban on the pesticide in Kerala ineffective; more children fall victim, shows survey
Rice intensification for increasing productivity
System of Rice Intensification is new mantra for reducing water usage and increasing productivity
Hunters are invited
At Pakke Tiger Reserve, NANDINI VELHO learns how a hunting tribe can be partner in conservation
Saving rice
Rice is at the heart of a fierce strategy debate as the country prepares to launch the second Green ...
Desert healer
Ruhi Kandhari travels to a cold desert in Himachal Pradesh to see how a former bureaucrat is greening it
How competent is Indian science?
A shoddy inter-academy report on GM crops casts a shadow on the integrity and competence of Indian science, while ...
No to natural sweetener
Nature’s zero-calorie sweetener—stevia—kept out of Indian market
Ponds for strongmen
Village heavyweights use natural farming methods
Desperate for Expressway
Uttar Pradesh is set to begin work on its ambitious expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal, turning a blind ...
Mango resistance
Farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s mango belt are clear they will not allow Lucknow’s solid waste facility on their dashehari ...
Upturned harvest
On a trip on the outskirts of Jaipur RAVLEEN KAUR finds farmers making money by following an unconventional practice
Water levels in free fall
Groundwater levels in the state in free fall
Andhra's groundwater crisis & a trail of suicides
Groundwater has failed Andhra Pradesh’s farmers. Between 1997 and 2006, about 4,500 farmers committed suicide, unable to repay loans ...
High altitude dams cause low apple yield
Dams are robbing Kinnaur of its big cash crop—apples
Beyond Bhopal: incentive for unsafe industries
A judgement by a Bhopal court has brought the worst gas tragedy into spotlight. It has galvanized the media ...
Why is fodder so expensive?
Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling