With a taste for metals

Made to order plants that eat pollutants

Into the ginger trap

Farmers from Kerala make big bucks by growing ginger in Karnataka but leave behind a trail of pollution

Pro-GM farmers stage protest near Parliament

Farmers' organisations demand rejection of technical experts committee report recommending indefinite ban on field trials of GM crops

Agrarian crisis: farmers from 15 states protest at Delhi Jantar Mantar

They demand moratorium on land acquisition; farmers' suicides, falling incomes and GMOs on list of concerns

Billowing Rage

The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke-spewing sponge iron plant in the area.

India softens its stand on endosulfan

Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India still in denial

Sharad Pawar says many states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

Scientists’ panel to add new member for report on GM field trials

Weeks after expert committee recommended moratorium Supreme Court agrees to agriculture ministry's request to add new member to panel

Simmering discontent over tea

The newfound success of brand Darjeeling is fuelling suspicion between planters and workers. Sayantan Bera reports

Unbalanced diets in G20 countries make 75% of global food carbon budget: Report

Food consumption patterns aligning with current national dietary guidelines can reduce total greenhouse gas emissions for G20 countries

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Dealing with crop stresses and scandals

Subbanna Ayyappan has made history in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (IACR) by becoming the first non-crop scientist to head this …

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COVID-19: 60% farmers suffered yield loss on their harvest, shows survey

Survey aimed to evaluate the impact of the nationwide lockdown against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on agricultural production …

Re-imagining food systems crucial for climate, economic resilience: Nutrition report

Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic pushes government to act on reforms of food systems with urgency

Rogue GM crops wreak havoc

Monsanto’s unauthorised GM wheat in the US has spooked the world, but contamination is widespread

Science under siege

Agricultural science has ossified in India. Despite a vast network of public research institutions and agriculture universities across the country,…

Organic thread

Even as Bt cotton invaded Indian fields in the past few years, some farmer groups kept pushing for organic cotton. In 2009-10, production in …