India needs a comprehensive approach to prevent pesticide related suicides
Most persons who engage in suicidal behaviour don't want to die but the government lacks proper data on the incidence of pesticide poisoning …
Live life farm style
Want to live in a city and grow your own food in a village nearby? There are companies that can help
Cheruvayal Raman’s paddy project: 20 years, 54 varieties, 1 national award
This 70-year old farmer's lifelong mission is to save Kerala's traditional rice varieties
Mushroom boom
Indian farmers are busy harvesting the booming demand for mushrooms. The problem is that it is a delicacy that is rather fastidious about its …
Why is Telangana asking the Centre to procure its excess stock of parboiled rice?
The Telangana government is asking the Centre to buy more than 90 per cent of its stock of parboiled rice at Minimum Support Price, some of which …
Is organic farming responsible for Sri Lanka’s economic crisis?
Analysis shows that it is not organic farming, but poor economic policies that are responsible for the economic crisis
How this woman changed the lives of children by nurturing an organic farm in Faridabad
Veena Lal’s organic farm and mud house located next to her organisation and children’s home in Faridabad near Delhi …
Peepal Farm: An organic ‘No-till’ farm that sustains people and rescues animals
Robin Singh and Shivani Bhalla’s end goal is the welfare of their animals. But they have set up structures around their farm which …
Watch how MGNREGA help villages beat poverty in Bundelkhand
Meegni & Himmatpura were troubled by water scarcity like several other villages of the region
Farmer and the new-age health market
India’s booming nutraceutical market provides a big opportunity to farmer producer organisations
Around 40 lakh farmers of Madhya Pradesh waiting for PM-Kisan’s first instalment
Data mismatch due to confusion regarding Aadhar card and bank account numbers were found to be the cause of confusion in many cases
Breaking silos in disaster management
An integrated approach involving all concerned stakeholders can help farmers combat the ill-effects of climate-induced natural disasters
Maize crops falling victim to fall armyworm in Bihar
Reports of the pest attacking crops have been reported from a number of districts in the state, India’s third-largest maize producer
India importing pulses despite self-reliance
Despite the Centre's claims of not importing pulses the previous year, foreign dal still entered the country
Trichomes the real heroes in natural farming
These small, smooth hair protect plants from insects and stop fungal spores from germinating
Uttarakhand farmers fall back on traditional food processing methods to boost earnings
Marketing of local varieties of food products can also increase farmers’ income
Bihar farmers block roads over fertiliser shortage
Agitating farmers September 12 stole 60 bags of urea from a truck in Nawada district; allege local agencies creating an artificial crisis
All that ails pulses in India
The past three decades have seen stagnation in acreage, production and productivity of pulses across the country due to a bevy of reasons that …
'The sugar sector is highly politicised'
Sandip Sukhtankar is associate professor, department of economics, University of Virginia, USA. He has authored a critically-acclaimed paper …
What’s the whole talk about doubling farmers’ income?
As the Bharatiya Janata Party promises this in its 2019 election manifesto, it’s imperative to know how doable is it and here’s all …
The invisibility of gender in Indian agriculture
Why policy paralysis in granting entitlements to women in agriculture and farm widows needs to be addressed
PM-KISAN challenge: Centre may end up spending only a fifth before elections
Lack of land records, poor Aadhar-linkage can cap disbursement at Rs 3,500 cr this financial year
Before Feb 1, brush up your knowledge of all Budgets since Independence
An analysis of all budgets since 1947, their relevance, exclusion of children’s rights and what the last Budget lacked: all of which is here
Why is Dilli Chalo 2018 a unique protest march by farmers?
P Sainath, noted grassroot journalist and founder editor of People's Archive of Rural India, talks about why this farmer protest is unique? About …
How resilient are indigenous goats to climate change
Indian scientists have identified biomarkers to reflect the impact of heat stress on meat characteristics and productivity in goats