Will diesel subsidy help farmers tide over drought?

New land acquisition bill will aggravate farmers' distress: legal experts

101 suicides in two months; is Marathwada the new Vidarbha?

Most suicides among orchard farmers, say observers

Does 2017 Tamil Nadu budget address water crisis, agrarian distress?

While government allocates fund for conservation of water bodies, farmers say their concerns not allayed

Farmers don’t commit suicide, they make sacrifice

In India, 34 farmers commit suicide every day; but the question is what drives them to do it?

Odisha’s deadly farmlands: Another farmer commits suicides due to crop loss

Between 2001 and 2010, over 2,600 farmers committed suicide in Odisha and this year, drought has already broken their economic backbone

Year of electors

In 2018, close to half of the world's population will vote for their governments

Point of no agri-returns Part 2: Every year, farmers lose Rs 63,000 crore for not being able to sell their produce

That explains why agrarian riots have increased by over 600 per cent in the last three years

Point of no agri-returns Part 5: 50,000 dedicated scientists, still, agriculture is an orphan of science

Technologies developed for agricultural purposes are mostly limited to farms around research institutions, says a government report

Hailstorms, unseasonal rains damaged 4.76 lakh hectares of crop in February

Around 300,000 hectares of crops like jowar, gram, wheat and horticulture crops like orange, grapes, bananas and vegetables were damaged in …

Two seasons of separation and a deep political desperation

It feels good that agriculture features high in political discourse but, again, it is misdirected

The countdown begins

Irrespective of being left or right in orientation, the next elections will be about rural issues

State of farmers' protests

Farmer protests continue to be at the centre stage with farmers in at least 15 states taking to the streets. There are three broad reasons for …

Why Centre's revised MSP for Kharif season is not encouraging for farmers

Apart from not factoring in increasing input costs, the renewed emphasis on revised MSP is taking away the focus from key interventions that …

Here's why 40% of India's farmers want to quit

A vicious cycle of debt and loan waivers is worsening the plight of the marginal and tenant farmer

Consult us on linking agriculture with MGNREGA: Farmers write to PM

Rashtriya Kisan Mahashangha demands farmers's involvement in deliberations over use of MGNREGA in farm sector

Why India's debut farm investment support scheme is leaving out many beneficiaries

The most expensive farmer welfare scheme in Telangana is providing land-owning farmers monetary assistance even before they plant the first …

In 4 years, farmers’ income has increased by just Rs 2,505 per month: NABARD report

Although the average farm income per month saw a rise in the last four years, it is still not enough to help farmers cope with the current …

More than 400,000 farmers to protest at Ramlila Maidan

On September 5, the Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally will start a march towards the Parliament with a list of demands regarding protection for …

You may pay a steep price but does the farmer make any money?

A farming household of five earns Rs 221/day, less than a person’s daily minimum wage

Polls won, waivers announced, but govt has no data on farmer suicides

The last NCRB report published in 2016 said a farmer committed suicide every hour in the country

Rewind 2018: How farming hogged headlines, yet not spotlight

The country saw a host of agricultural protests, policies, disputes and distress in 2018; here’s all of it

Himachal's farm success story at risk of going awry

Controlled-atmosphere farming shows a way of bucking agrarian crisis

'Pressure from banks pushes farmers to commit suicide'

One year since the Maharashtra farmer protests, Down To Earth speaks to Raghunath Dada Patil on the deepening crisis

Why are Punjab farmers unhappy despite loan waiver, cash in hand

The issue of farm distress needs to be taken up as a long-term project and should not be looked through the prism of small-term electoral gains