Tikait on SEZ and Indian farmer

Darkness lies ahead for the Indian Farmer, says Mahendra Singh Tikait, Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) leader in this exclusive interview with Down to …

Wheat worries: Standing guard over future pandemics

Down To Earth visited villages on the West Bengal-Bangladesh border that have been struck by wheat blast. Here is a report on what is happening there

Bridging Gaps: This Chhattisgarh farmer’s collective champions sustainability

This farmer-producer organisation in Dantewada follows a decentralised process

Chilli under attack: New thrips species destroys farms in 6 states

Farmers are being pushed to suicide amid market shortage  

Simply Put: Understanding moisture content

Simply Put: Sees no farmer, hear no farmer, speak no farmer

Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Food Security in a Changing Environment

A changing climate is likely to have a drastic impact on crop yields in Africa.

Enigma of the political class

US-China trade war an opportunity for India to boost soya bean production

Can India augment its production and processing capacity to benefit?

What is the cost of doubling farmers’ income by 2022?

The farmers have to make an investment of Rs 463 billion in the next five years

Harming the organic farming movement

The draft regulations will dissuade small farmers from practising organic farming

African swine fever killed over 9,000 pigs in Mizoram

The first ASF outbreak was reported 100 years ago in Kenya

Severe drought in Turkey: Istanbul can run of water in months

Several of the city's aquifers have recorded the lowest volumes recorded in 15 years

Simply Put: Farmers, protests & a wake-up call

Simply Put: Farmers income

40 buffaloes die of haemorrhagic septicaemia in Odisha’s Kendrapara

Locals blame officials for not acting on time, worried about livelihood

Simply Put: Food inflation

More than 10,000 farmers, farm hands committed suicide in 2017

NCRB points out decrease in toll since 2013

Farmers hit hard by changing rainfall pattern in Bihar

The state has recorded less-than-normal rainfall in the past seven years

Simply put: Farm crisis

Watch: How fishing helped Jharkhand farmers displaced by Chandil dam

Jharkhand has doubled its catch of fish between 2013-14 and 2018-19

Researchers develop pesticide alternative to protect plants form viral infection 

New screening process can detect efficient molecules that can help kill virus

Women’s labour force participation in India among the world’s lowest: Oxfam

Three in four Indian women not employed while the gender pay gap is 34 per cent

Hard work, but low wages for women farmers

Women farmers earn 22 per cent less than their male counterparts

Simply Put: Tomato prices