Remedies

Government has to revise its policies. But it will have to learn from the civil society

Has lifting subsidies depressed fertiliser use?

A survey reveals that while using fertilisers, farmers are seldom guided by their price alone.

Chemical-free abundance

After years of killing his fields with pesticides and fertilisers, a sapota grower rediscovered cultivation without chemicals

Disparate growth

India's city compost policy needs overhauling

Promised financial incentives for sale of city compost did not prove to be a game-changer in promoting its marketing and production 

What price subsidies?

Rotterdam Convention: International trade of 2 hazardous pesticides recommended for ‘prior informed consent’

Iprodione & Terbufos dangerous for health of humans, aquatic animals; India among largest exporters of Terbufos

Toxic aid

Arsenic down under

A Geological Survey of India study points to the possible role played by use of phosphatic fertilisers, among other factors, in the occurrence …

FARMERS' REVOLT

QUALITY CONTROL

Low highs

A revolution redefined

Troubled by the degradation of soil and water, French farmers are now switching to a more sustainable practise of agriculture

Looks like Basmati but

India is losing the pride of many a pulao -- the aroma and taste of basmati rice. What are scientists and legal experts fighting about?

Excess nitrogen fertilisers hamper germination, root growth in rice: study

Indian scientists have now identified rice varieties that are efficient in nitrogen use

"Subsidies have to be withdrawn"

A study reveals how subsidies are encouraging farmers to waste water and use land and fertilisers unsustainably.

Juice no more

Fertilisers are leading to lower production of apples in Himachal Pradesh

Return of the storks

Home made potash

New Technology will help save foreign exchange

Marvel unearthed

Newly found plant gene could help increase the natural phosphorus uptake of crops

"We increasingly rely on inorganic fertilisers"

James Galloway, chairperson of the US-based International Nitrogen Initiative,tells T V Jayan that problems associated with nitrogen cycle …

Why India needs to bring back nature-positive farming

The pandemic showed that human interventions in natural processes can have disastrous consequences; we should now scale up natural-positive food …

Niligiris' journey to being ODF led to it embracing organic farming

The hill district witnesses a successful example of closing the nutrient loop in a sustainable way

Sikkim is 100% organic! Take a second look

The state's transition to organic farming is yet to become a true success

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