Soy seed crunch hits farmers in Maharashtra

Farmers sceptical of agricultural department’s strategy of using previous year’s crop as seed to meet this year’s kharif demand

Biogas rediscovered

Innovative Vidarbha farmers make biogas plants viable.

Not par for the coarse

Women grow food basket

Maharashtra district revives an old farm practice and tackles drought

What happens to the irrigation scam now, Mr Fadnavis?

The new BJP government in Maharashtra has cleared the trust vote with help from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Will it now be in a …

Carrots keep weeds at bay

They grow fast and their foliage blocks sunlight to weeds, farmers in Maharashtra have found  

MIHAN SEZ, a failure?

Only three companies and 655 employees since its inception in 2006

Maharashtra forest department to go hi-tech

Satellite images and information technology will be used to check poaching, tree felling

Coal crunch hits Maharashtra power plants: Mahagenco

Officials deny shortfall in power supply

"Sir, did you get a cut on my dam?"

New diet regime for calves

Producer pays more

Vidarbha cities granted zeroloadshedding; high charges sting

Stalk soup

Tribals in central India use mushroom stalks to ward off chills and cold

Rain imbalance

An analytical study of 100 years of rainfall data in Maharashtra reveals that rainfall seasonality index has risen alarmingly in all districts in …

Bid to denotify Nag river's upper reaches stalled

State environment ministry rejects proposal of state pollution control board that would have paved way for real estate development

Maharashtra's white paper on irrigation projects fails to answer key questions

Activists, citizens groups enraged by silence on hyped water availability estimates, bad construction and corruption

Maharashtra lost over 1,500 sq km forests in 30 years

Reason: development projects and encroachments

A touch of powder

Maharashtrians spice up their simple meals with dry oilseed chutney

Rice originated in India

Fresh evidence from dung of dinosaurs changes many conceptions

Seeds of failure

Soybean does not sprout in 40,000 hectares in Maharashtra, state blames farmers

Kolam tribals in Maharashtra struggling to get their land back

Centre stops mining near Tadoba

Leases to Adani group near tiger reserve to be cancelled

'560 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra after hailstorms'

State minister says relief will be provided to even those farmers who have not taken loans though their applications were rejected

Nagpur citizens oppose power tariff hike, load shedding

Hike proposed is fifth in a year; people blame power distributor for not recovering dues from the powerful

Bite into bitters

Maharashtra tribals’ way of warding off monsoon maladies