Hands off the cane

With mechanical assistance, Indian sugar cane cultivators can give their backs a break

Cheap solution to labour

Mechanical bullocks

A farm implement that promises to be a boon for small farmers

Handy harvester

Slowly, but effectively

Harvesting troubles

Combine harvester machines not suitable for India

Driving out weeds

A motorised device to uproot weeds

Drying device

Rice and easy

New seeder

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

Labour exit

Labour shortage in agriculture forces Indian farmers to innovate to stay afloat

Why is fodder so expensive?

Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling  

Disconnect

Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …

Fielding robots

As part of an effort to promote nasa 's technology, US researchers have developed two new automated agricultural machines

Promoting agri practices in Punjab for water efficiency, better residue management

New-age machines can help save costs, water & electricity usage as well as combat the problem of stubbles

Killer farms

Popular imagination may paint a very idyllic picture of life on a farm. But lurking behind this rustic charm lies a dangerous occupation, farming

Seven-in-one

The highly laborious and time consuming process of sugarcane planting has been made simpler, thanks to a multiple-function device developed by …

Natural paradox

On November 4, the un General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of ending the us-imposed embargo against Cuba. The Mexican representative …

Crop burning: New machines don’t solve, but add to menace

Debt-ridden farmers have to either rent or buy the machines, which pose several threats to their next crop

Generating controversy

Environment ministry favours small manufacturers, ignores experts' advice on air emission norms for off-road diesel engines

Got Fodder?

Manju and Mukesh Gupta have had to reduce their milk intake because the two rupee per litre milk price hike has become too much of an expense. …

High cost of fodder led milk price hike

First pulses, now milk. The common household is compelled to give up on its easy sources of protein. RAVLEEN KAUR found rise in fodder prices, …