Govt needs to address policy ambiguities affecting shifting cultivation: NITI Aayog

The NITI Aayog report recommends doing away with the practice of having divergent approaches towards shifting cultivation

Eye on irrigated pie

Farmers' organisations raise an alarm over Odisha government's recent guidelines that allow industries to acquire irrigated land

Why Bhavnagar farmers oppose limestone mining

Letter to high court-appointed panel lists reasons

Merely increasing PMFBY budget allocation might not help

To make this scheme really attractive for farmers, various serious measures need to be taken

Dalit farmers in Kasauli march to common grazing land

They held a cattle grazing drive to show they won’t give grazing rights on the land, which the upper castes claim is theirs

Point of No Agri-returns Part 7: India diverts 10 million hectares of productive agri-lands, replaces them with barren lands for cultivation

Government report terms this as the 'often overlooked' aspect of the agrarian crisis in the country

Union Budget 2022-23: How will ‘Kisan Drones’ benefit farmers, experts ask

‘Spraying pesticides and fertilisers will help industries the most‘

As told to Parliament (March 24, 2023): India has eliminated leprosy, as per WHO criterion

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 17, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Rajasthan to ease rules for urbanising agricultural land

Activists say new provision in land revenue Act protects neither farmers nor agriculture

Land use policy for the country on anvil

Rural development ministry revives two-decade old plan to demarcate the country according to land use to avert conflicts

'Climate change to impact suitability of tropical agricultural lands by 2100'

Suitability will shift to higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere

Increasing population, demand for food in Africa need urgent attention: Experts

Policies, mega plans by governments needed as 2023 priorities for action for food systems

SC slams Gujarat minister for illegal sale of agricultural land

Gujarat government had gone out of its way to allow Mumbai-based company to sell land to bauxite processing unit