India experienced an extreme weather event on 314 of 365 days last year

The events from January 1 to December 31, 2022, claimed 3,026 lives, affected 1.96 million hectares of crop area, 423,249 houses and killed over …

Remembering Anil Agarwal: India needs a Gobar Minister

Today is the death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. He wrote this editorial …

Lumpy skin disease epidemic in Saurashtra; 39 animals dead: Govt

Government takes measures to control epidemic spread in animals; over 25,000 cattle vaccinated across affected areas   

In a first, New Zealand proposes to tax farmers for livestock burps

Livestock emissions are a major source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas; New Zealand has more livestock than people

America’s cattle industry could obliterate its mustangs

The US Senate recently approved $35 million for the ‘Path Forward’ initiative that critics say will wipe out America’s famed …

Interim Budget 2019: 'Gokul Mission funds have not been suitably utilised at all'

The scheme is just 'lip service' for the Modi government says official even as Piyush Goyal allocates Rs 750 crore to it

Why I would not advocate vegetarianism

Meat eating is not the key issue, it is the amount that is consumed and the manner in which it is produced. This is where India differs.

Blocking out the bulls

Amul is importing semen to increase the birth rate of female cows, while reducing the chances of the males

Ground Report: Lumpy Skin Disease has created a livelihood crisis for India’s small dairy farmers

Livestock farming is the mainstay for most of India’s poorest farmers, especially in arid and semi-arid regions; they have no other source …

Food security policy formulation: What can India learn from other countries?

Food shortage, inflation, irrational polices: What not to do to avoid economic disasters 

Cross-breeding, herd management key strategy to maximise India’s milk production: Study

New British-Australian study lays emphasis on cross-breeding to increase milk yield in India without neglecting indigenous animals

Is contract farming in India really worth it?

It is a novel idea; but in a country where the ruling class openly favours corporates, it could prove disastrous for farmers

Cattle slaughter ban to turn today’s girls into anaemic women: study

The research paper says that women exposed to the ban in their year of birth are 10% more likely to be anemic in their prime reproductive age

We do not recognise that domestic meat production and consumption exists

It is important to respect economic interests of farmers and build a meat production economy that is legal, affordable and sustainable

North India faces an acute fodder shortage, courtesy wheat crisis, climate change

Wheat straw is being sold at Rs 1,100-1,700 per quintal; it was being sold at Rs 400-600 per quintal last year

Animal feed ingredient from US with GM corn can hurt India's livestock industry

As lower yield pushes up maize prices feed makers turn jittery; but importing genetically modified ingredients can spell trouble in the …

You can’t deprive people of food, livelihood: HC on UP slaughterhouse crackdown

Facilitating operations of legal slaughterhouses is important as that’s related to food and food habits, which is undisputedly connected …

Drought in Kenya forces herders to invade wildlife habitats

Over the past few weeks, about 10,000 nomadic herders have systematically targeted private game lodges, ranches and smallholdings

Livestock population drops 3.3 per cent in five years

Decrease in number of goats, sheep and camels indicates livelihood crisis for the poor; number of milk-producing animals has increased

Department of animal husbandry & dairying surrendered over Rs 1,500 crore in last 3 years

Till February 2023, the department had spent less than 60% of budgetary allocation for 2022-23

Wild spread of lumpy skin disease in Rajasthan may have been triggered by climate change

Vectors of the viral disease thrive during periods of heavy rainfall like the kind the state witnessed this year

Scrap laws banning cattle slaughter, farm exports: Farmers

Farmer organisations say these laws and several others ensure farmers do not get their rightful pay

How cow became the mother of demigods

The current political discourse on cow protection disregards the history of beef eating in India

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022: Is dung procurement a solution to UP’s stray cattle problem

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured the people of Uttar Pradesh that there will be no problem of stray cattle in the state after March 10

Handle with care: The dictum for using antibiotics in livestock

Using natural additives in animal feed, educating farmers, timely vaccination, ethnoveterinary practices and strict implementation of rules can …