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India shining meets Hindutva

Uma Bharti is getting serious. The newly elected chief minister of Madhya Pradesh (MP) has unleashed a development agenda built around the 'cow …

Reviving the Tharparker cattle breed

An NGO in Barmer has launched Tharparker animal breed improvement programmes in Minjrad and another village in the district. Two pure Tharparker …

The grass returns

How a village in Rajasthan greened its pasture despite official hamhandedness

Toxic feed turns cattle killer in Sindh

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 …

Vanishing breeds

While people worry about patenting of upmarket plant products like neem because of transnational interest, India's unique biodiversity of …

Toda traditions in peril

Can this tribal community in the Nilgiris survive the concrete trappings of civilisation? Tarun Chhabra on the eco-friendly Todas

Rise of livestock

Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain

What's eating the grasslands?

Penny foolish, pond wise

Once parched, Dewas in Madhya Pradesh is now a lush green district

Nomads fenced in

Maharashtra on way to ban illegal graziers from other states

Astray?

From the Gir National Park in Gujarat to the Sunderbans in West Bengal, lions and tigers are ranging far beyond territories administered by the …

Banking on variety

Himachal villagers resist pine monoculture, reclaim forests for fodder

Drugged by chicken

Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures

It's a cow's life

Cattle in western Rajasthan struggle for survival as pastures continue to shrink

Cowering behind lies

PETER B STONE presents an objective re-examination of the recent scare over the mad cow disease in Europe

High-five

Scientists are rediscovering the value of the unique combination of five products of the cow, especially as pesticide

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

A scapegoat?

The government views goats as the greatest enemy of the environment

The loss of our breeds

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Of cattle and humaneness

British animal lovers and livestock farmers continue to lock their horns over live shipments

Beefing up