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ICAR’s ‘MoU signing spree’ with MNCs spurs concerns over corporatisation of Indian agriculture
Shagun
5 min read
While private companies will get to utilise ICAR's vast network, collaboration likely to affect nature of services provided by ICAR and agriculture extension functionaries
PCOS to PMOS: What does the name change mean for Indian women?
Ayesha Mirza
3 min read
The earlier term “PCOS” was considered misleading because many women diagnosed with the condition do not actually have polycystic ovaries
What does fuel price hike mean for farmers and how does it influence inflation?
DTE Staff
1 min read
Diesel powers tractors, irrigation pumps, harvesters, and transport — making it a major farming cost
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DTE Staff
2 min read
Agreement to increase goat productivity, provide advanced training in breeding and healthcare practises and foster sustainability
Several economies are dependent on cocoa. Photo for representation: iStock
Michael E Odijie
4 min read
A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana
Green Revolution policy initiatives secured India’s food security over the last five decades but caused major ecological disasters, depleting groundwater in grey zones in Punjab and Haryana.
Virender Singh Lather
3 min read
This technology will raise cultivation costs by monopolising the seed-agrochemical market and may lead to more robust, herbicide-resistant weeds in the future, endangering rice production
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DTE Staff
3 min read
DTE and CSE hold webinar on magazine's coverage of ICAR research
Clockwise from top left: Boiga forsteni, named for Eltio A Forsten; Cnemaspis smaug, after Tolkien’s dragon; Ahaetulla dispar, linked to Sinhala for “eye plucker”; and Cyrtodactylus khasiensis, after the Khasi Hills.
Himanshu Nitnaware
4 min read
The updated checklist spans 267 years of records and traces how reptile names preserve stories of places, people, languages and natural history
Earlier experiences of private ventures into agriculture through contract farming have indicated the exploitation of farmers at the hands of big corporate giants. Representative photo: iStock.
Nivedita Sharma
4 min read
CDP has the potential to benefit farmers; however, asymmetric power relations can make farmer-producer organisations captive markets for the goods produced and marketed by big companies
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef.
Mandy Freund
3 min read
Record ocean temperatures and a fast-developing El Niño are amplifying climate change impacts, with vulnerable communities hardest hit
Heat is a disaster now. What does that mean for workers?
Avinash Kumar Chanchal
4 min read
Workers must be put at the centre of India’s heat response plans and the existing occupational safety framework strengthened accordingly
Two markets, one cost curve: What BESS demand means for India’s EV prices
Moushumi Mohanty
7 min read
Combining EV mandate demand with BESS demand can bring cell costs down structurally rather than through incentive-dependent discounting
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