Destroying pork

What's eating the grasslands?

Overgrazing is just the tip of the iceberg.The real culprit is mismanagement

Treasures in grass

India has a huge variety of grasses. But the wealth is being destroyed

Feed for thought

Glycerin will be future chickenfeed

Burp control: How can methane released in livestock belches be reduced? Scientists are trying various options

Scientists are experimenting with seaweed as well as concoctions having several other ingredients to make the specialised digestive system of …

The milk that ate the grass

India may be the largest producer of milk in the world, but at an incredible cost. In achieving this distinction, the country's vast cattle …

Starving cattle

Untamed bacteria

UK's efforts to control antibiotic-resistant bacteria fails

The 'other' food crisis

Regulation of GM food subject to life inside it: Activists decry Centre’s strange decision

The government must uphold its duty to regulate the environment, health and nature, activists say as a consignment of GM soya gets clearance

How India is killing the country’s largest economy of the poor

New restriction on cattle slaughter will severely cripple the livestock economy which is bigger than crop economy; poor farmers shifted to …

What exactly are cattle fed?

In Punjab, too much limestone powder and urea: adulteration hardly a bother for feed-makers

Methane from Indian cattle overestimated

How is fodder crisis rendering livestock vulnerable?

Today, India faces an acute fodder shortage that has left drought-hit farmers and livestock vulnerable. Jitendra finds out how fodder crisis has …

Treated like cattle

A drawn out court case raises questions about India's animal quarantine managers

Fortified protection

Maharashtra to dispose of rotten imported wheat

Today's menu: dioxins

Belgium authorities found carcinogenic dioxins in food products. And they brushed the matter under the carpet. Now, Europe is facing an …

Food security for livestock

Focus must shift from supercows to cattlefeed  

Guar mine

Farmers in Rajasthan make big bucks as shale gas rush boosts demand for little-known cluster bean

Is it safe?

Today every European and some Asians are asking themselves: How safe is the food we eat?

Half of the world’s hungry people live in Asia-Pacific; Southern Asia worst affected: FAO

Higher food, feed, and fuel prices, combined with a slow recovery from COVID-19 pandemic to blame; women fared worse in food insecurity

Medicinal plants help animals digest better

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. …