Cattle, labour and other non-descripts

India's farm labour needs dignity

Quantity mars quality

Nutrient value of fruits and vegetables is falling

New Malayalam book charts traditional aggro practices

A software to manage weed

An open source programme to help farmers

Chinese aggro

India lagging behind due to bad practices

Let’s discuss food’s climate impact

More than any other economic sector, agriculture creates a divide between the world that emits for survival and the one that emits for luxury

Farmers face a soaring risk of flash droughts in every major food-growing region in coming decades, new research shows

One way to help agriculture adapt to the rising risk is to improve forecasts for rainfall and temperature

Food security: Climate change is affecting the seeds that India depends on

An increase in number of days with extreme temperatures or rain has caused a decline in quality and size of seeds across India

India’s green push for second-generation bioethanol

Could diversify feedstock basket, help secure long-term sustainability with improved economics 

Africa must diversify its exports to survive further economic shocks: Report

African countries can overcome commodity dependence by investing in high knowledge-intensive services and improving competitiveness in the …

Value in the weed: Profit potential of green and leafy bathua

Bathua is in demand for its nutrition and taste. Improved varieties of the weed can make it popular among farmers

Denmark legally binds farmers to reduce GHGs emission by half in 9 years

Denmark had adopted this plan in December 2019; 3 sectors — transport, energy and agriculture — account for the country’s …

Farmers need support, period

It is time we talked about the real cost of our food, about how to benefit farmers who grow our food

COVID-19: Challenges for Andhra, Telangana farmers continue despite procurement plans

Issues of non-procurement of a number of crops, logistics and others will test the plans in their initial stages

IIT Madras inks pact with ExxonMobil to boost biofuel research

The five-year agreement is focused on data analytics, gas conversion and transport and is aimed towards finding low-emission solutions

95 per cent women in India involved in unpaid labour

Report says involving women in the workforce can help achieve future aspirations that can boost India’s GDP by 27 per cent

Day temperature, not daylight, influences beans flowering: study

The findings of Bengaluru-based researchers may help farmers plant the right varieties to optimise yields

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

India has the highest number of organic farmers globally, but most of them are struggling

Poor policy measures, rising input costs and limited market are affecting growth of organic farming in the country

Rich nations should reduce trade-distorting farm subsidies by 2019: India, China tell WTO

The countries say that talks on further discipline on domestic support can only happen after harmful subsidies are reduced

Soil fertility is not the only measure of soil health

At the ongoing International Permaculture Convergence, experts discussed how the modern farming system has destroyed soil health

Wild tomatoes can help in making commercial varieties disease-free

Indian and Israeli scientists found a way to develop tomatoes resistant to the most common disease, Early Blight

Proposed RCEP trade deal anti-poor, compromises India's food sovereignty: protesters

The proposed mega trade agreement, which India and 15 other countries are negotiating, is likely to compromise food sovereignty of developing …

Climate change to affect rice productivity, finds a new study

Elevated temperature was found to have a negative impact on rice productivity, even nullifying the positive effects of higher level of CO2  …

FAO charts action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance in food and agriculture

The FAO Action Plan is timely and draws attention towards the terrestrial, aquatic animal and agriculture sectors