Why is fodder so expensive?

Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling  

Fair farming

The European Union buckles under the pressure of the developing countries to reduce agricultural subsidies

Public health over profits

Can green mean free?

India Organics Inc

The Indian farmer is 'naturally' organic. But without support and premium for 'green' crops, there is no alternative but to take the chemical route

Not a cakewalk

Bottlenecks and hassles confront the Indian organic producers

Legislation for a few

Benefits of the Act that encourages conservation of plants reach few farmers

The energy divide

Chronic power deprivation in some districts raises serious policy issues

Kagga in peril

This rice can tolerate brackish water but is on the brink of extinction. Can government save it?

Japanese biopiracy of our Ballia barley

Japan’s Sapporo brewery patents Indian barley gene without giving benefit to farmers

It's the market, stupid

Monsanto went mainstream. No, said the market

Seeds for Iife

Scientists and NGOs find common ground in ensuring that farmers possess the divers they can use and conserve

Aye, says India to GM food

Draft rules for GM food are nothing short of treachery by the Union government

Not ready for Roundup Ready

Notwithstanding the resounding failure of its Bt cotton, Monsanto has begun to introduce another genetically modified crop into India, its …

Debating GM crops: Let sound science, and so good sense, inform it

The Paris-based International Council for Science, a federation of more than 100 national science academies, has come out with the biggest review …

Cotton-eating monsters lay low the farmers

Cotton farmers in northwest India were taken by surprise when, despite a pesticide blitzkrieg, the American bollworm devastated half their crops. …

Sweet death

Red rot, a fatal fungus eating into the sugarcane crop in western Uttar Pradesh, has left India drastically short on sugar. BIJOY BASANT PATRO …

Cattle, labour and other non-descripts

India's farm labour needs dignity

The age of discovery

Research in rice genomics could be the key to eradicating hunger through environmentally sustainable methods, says Latha Rangan

Bt-by-Bt assessment

On November 10, 2002, people wearing 'Bollgard' caps visited cotton farmer R Narsimha Reddy at his home in Aleru, a village in Nalgonda, Andhra …

Copping out

India needs a proper GM regime, if it wants a global say

Hope in a heap

Farmers benefit as a factory in Maharashtra fuels its turbines with different types of agrowaste

Bundled in a sacred basket

Tribal farmers in Jharkhand use mora made of rice straw to store grains

Making of a nightmare

Pakistan faces trying times ahead, as insecticide resistant cotton pests threaten to devastate the country's fledgling economy

Drought and livestock