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

Simply Put: Tomato prices

Poor yield

Doing away fertilisers

China

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: Crop insurance

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

Harming the organic farming movement

The draft regulations will dissuade small farmers from practising organic farming

Nitrogen sensor

Can limit the polluting fertiliser run-off in waterbodies

Bank on people

What a new minimum livelihood programme must do, at the least

High-yield, low agro-diversity

Green Revolution crops have also snuffed out farmers' wisdom in the Western Himalaya

Spur to militancy?

Investments in the Northeast fail to generate employment

Ebbing away

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

African swine fever killed over 9,000 pigs in Mizoram

The first ASF outbreak was reported 100 years ago in Kenya

Simply put: Farm crisis