China to adopt genetically modified maize and soy: Why it matters for South Africa

If China becomes a consistent net exporter of maize, South Africa would have to explore markets elsewhere

Simply Put: The nutrition question

How will India’s wheat export U-turn affect the world?

This ban could drive global wheat prices sky high and affect poorer countries of Asia and Africa

India bans wheat export

The Centre has banned export of all types of wheat from the country with immediate effect 

Wheat Crisis: Centre to procure half of what it procured last year; stops procurement in Punjab

Current circumstances could lead to a reddux of 2006-07, when wheat had to be imported

Record decline in wheat procurement: Will we have enough on the plate?

The heat in March-April and the export of Indian wheat means the country will be left with fewer stocks to feed itself

UNEA 5.2: Australia dumping plastic in ASEAN countries despite ending exports in 2020, shows report

Australia promoting policies driving “massive investment” in plastic waste fuel, says report

How Russia-Ukraine conflict could influence Africa’s food supplies

African countries imported agricultural products worth $4 billion from Russia in 2020

World wildlife day: Cameroon's rich biodiversity face innumerable threats

More than 630 flora and fauna species in Cameroon are listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List

Unfair fields: Asymmetric WTO rules let US inflate cotton subsidies must be reformed

Cottton farmers in India and other Global South countries, like the Afican C-4 of benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, at peril …

Sri Lanka is not anybody’s dumping ground

In a major win, the country's Court of Appeals recently ordered the repatriation of hazardous waste imported from the UK

I, onion: An authorised biography of the humble vegetable

Onions are so ubiquitous on people’s plates that fluctuations in the tuber’s prices can make or break electoral fortunes; cultivators …

Onion crisis: ‘High time Union govt invested in low-cost storage’

Country director, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics talks to DTE on onion price volatality, amendement to …

Ways to ensure remunerative prices to farmers

Several states have different levels of capabilities. Some states like Haryana and Punjab are historically in a better position to procure, while …

Himachal's Kharif onion initiative: Can it help check annual price rise?

The project focusses on Dalit and tribal women farmers in Chamba growing onion with the help of Solan University

Why an American farmer commits suicide

Like their India counterparts, American farmers are losing income, piling up debt and nobody listens to them  

Spinning industry seeks government help

Industry association recently published advertisements in newspapers, seeking govt attention

India has a failed salvation policy on the not-so-holy buffalo

India’s only scheme to leverage the expanding buffalo meat exports has been in doldrums. To make it work, the government must first get rid …

Go for inclusive growth

As much as the government works to formalise the Indian economy, conditions force people into illegal and informal business

Red sanders is now free of export restrictions

Earlier 3,000 Indian farmers involved in cultivating the red-coloured wood couldn’t find any takers in domestic market

Will India’s new agricultural export policy work?

Food grain buffers exceed need, global prices remain depressed

India claims to be self-sufficient in food production but facts say otherwise

If the government decides to feed all its hungry people, India's tag of a net exporting country will be easliy lost

Why Tanzania’s army is buying country's entire cashew nut

A crisis brimming in Tanzania over the price of cashews has led to a spate of twists and turns   

In 2 years, 80% cashew producing units closed in Kollam

Huge operational costs and unfriendly government policies led to the closure of the units; it also left 0.35 million people jobless, mostly women&…

10,000 sheep, goat stranded at Gujarat port after govt cancels export

This last-minute decision came after the Jain community protested against livestock export to the Middle-East