GATT goes sour
JAMAICA
'Kerala may have suffered economic losses of up to Rs 20,000 crore due to floods'
The tourism and agriculture industry in the state have borne the brunt of destruction
DTE Reportage: India’s dairy industry in trouble
DTE reports as to how climate change, government policies, COVID-19 and other factors brought the dairy sector to its knees
Farmers threaten to block essential supplies across India over RCEP
Farmer organisations burnt the effigy of Union minister Piyush Goyal at Jantar Mantar and called for protests across India in the coming days …
Cooperative in spirit
Verghese Kurien, the man who made cooperatives an empowering business model
Food security for livestock
Focus must shift from supercows to cattlefeed
Benefits of milk: What can it do to your body?
Milk is very beneficial for our bodies and here are such five ways that milk can make our lives better
Selenium nanoparticles may act like antibacterial agents
Scientists find that they can be more effective than antibiotics owing to their unique structure and properties
GWP100 or GWP*: Meat, dairy lobby pushing for new methane metric. How this will enable greenwashing
New method takes current methane emissions as baseline to present minor reductions as negative emissions or cooling
Over the next decade, demand for cereals to grow only in low-income regions
Per capita meat consumption will grow most strongly in the developed world
Dolly's dark cousin
Scientists in India claim that they will soon clone the buffalo
To save cows, regulations imposed on drug that helps women with childbirth
Government tries to restrict use of oxytocin as it is also illegally given to cattle to increase milk production
17 million missing: Why was there a fat problem in India’s dairy industry?
Indian dairy farmers now prefer exotic or crossbred cows to indigenous cattle, buffaloes; a crossbred cow has a high milk yield compared to a …
World AMR Awareness Week: How ethnoveterinary medicines combat antimicrobial resistance
The biggest USP of ethnoveterinary medicines is that they can be prepared at home; simple ingredients of EVMs can work against several …
Dairy units in India turn to cheaper alternatives
This strikes a blow to small farmers as they don't get a fair price for their produce since the market is flooded with cheaper options
Changes in livestock breeding needed to boost A2 milk: study
The frequency of A2 casein is high in indigenous breeds of India as compared to that of exotic, indicating an opportunity for Indian dairy …
Cutting antimicrobial use, promoting good farming practices can enhance farm productivity
A six-year study conducted by UK researchers showed that these steps can help increase milk yield and fertility parameters and drop clinical …
Carving oases in drought-prone Kutch
The Shree Vivekananda Research and Training Institute has made a name for itself, helping villagers in Kutch district. Among its innumerable …
A silent white revolution
Women living in a non-descript village in Gujarat revive a defunct dairy, earlier run by men. Today, not only do they churn out 100 per cent …
Safal shows the way
Mother Dairy’s retail model helps farmers but is under pressure from chains
Dairy farmers want at least Rs 30/ltr for cow milk
Farmers seek MSP since surplus skimmed milk powder is lowering demand and prices
Dairy farm wastewater increases presence of antibiotic resistant genes in soil
A new study has found that using wastewater from dairy farms for soil irrigation significantly increased the presence of antibiotic …
Natural-born killers
A naturally occuring bacterium in milk can save the losses incurred by mal1scale dairy farmers who do not own refrigeration facilities
World’s coffee shops have emerged as plant milk’s front line
Milk made from plants is entering the public consciousness (and stomachs) in coffee shops across the globe.