Wealth from waste

A farmer from Hitapur village in Ludhiana district of Punjab has evolved a system of resourcefully utilising all his farm waste

Efficient use of a scarce resource

Many organisations promote the use of fuel-efficient stoves for cooking, which is the biggest consumer of energy in India.

Switch on biomass

Power crisis spurs market for renewables in rural Bihar

12 grain route to prosperity

Jyotika Sood finds out how farmers in the Himalaya manage food round the year

Handmade paper industry flourishes in Latur

When you hear about Latur, you remember earthquakes, drought, and disaster. But making beauty out of ashes is what the Kalpakala Industry …

First comes chick

Kuroiler hens offer a poultry business model that can fight poverty, nutritional stress

Ponds for strongmen

Village heavyweights use natural farming methods

Penny foolish, pond wise

Once parched, Dewas in Madhya Pradesh is now a lush green district

Punjab's spiritual farming

A looming biomess

Industry, government blame each other for green sector’s fall

Biomass market in a flux

Biomass power generation started with a bang 10 years ago. Plant owners, Ruhi Kandhari and Aparna Pallavi met say the picture is not that …

Retail FDI myths

There is no evidence that global retail chains ensure better prices for farmers or help bring down inflation

Fuelling a debate

Ethanol is a clean and cheap fuel blend. But the Indian government is impeding the use of ethanol when it is callously promoting cancer-causing MTBE

Forest to farms

India's paper industry now sources more wood from farmers. Why does it still demand forestland?

Agriculture Don't fix is the government's fix

Carbon credit earns profit

To keep afloat biomass plant owners have shifted their gaze to the international carbon credit market

FDI in retail: some unanswered questions

Urban consumer may benefit, but what about marginal farmers and the environment?

Wanted, tariff revision

Biomass power plant owners say they cannot manage with power rates fixed when they began operations

Peanut shells can clean water

News Snippets

In bad taste

EPA's animal farm air quality improvement plan

Distilled waste

A way to detoxify distillery wastes

The polluting reaper

MORALIZING THE ENVIRONMENT: COUNTRYSIDE CHANGE, FARMING AND POLLUTION·Philip Lowe, Judy Clarke, Susanne Seymour and Neil Ward· UCL …

Straw wealth

A new process to make fertilisers -- and more --from straw

Plant energy