Uttarakhand farmers fall back on traditional food processing methods to boost earnings

Marketing of local varieties of food products can also increase farmers’ income

Simply Put: Farmers income

Farmer and the new-age health market

India’s booming nutraceutical market provides a big opportunity to farmer producer organisations

Hard work, but low wages for women farmers

Women farmers earn 22 per cent less than their male counterparts

India needs a comprehensive approach to prevent pesticide related suicides

Most persons who engage in suicidal behaviour don't want to die but the government lacks proper data on the incidence of pesticide poisoning …

3 in 5 persons at farmer protest sites near Delhi have to defecate in open: Survey

Inadequate provisioning of toilets compromising health, nutrition and hygiene for all protesters, especially women, survey by Jan Swasthya …

Interim Budget 2019: Government's big farmer push falls short

The government’s 6,000 per year offer works out to Rs 3.30 a day, which can't even buy a cup of tea  

Padma Shri awardees include 12 farmers

Out of the 94 Padma Shri awardees, 12 farmers have been awarded for various activities like organic farming, traditional seed conservation and …

Cheers, agriculture is finally a political agenda in India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi plays Santa Claus on Christmas Day, releases funds and discusses farmers’ problems as protests continue on …

How COVID-19 controls hit farmers in 7 low-income countries, most in Africa

In countries with strictest controls, 80% smallholder households reported major disruptions

Simply Put: Victims of Lakhimpur violence

Death by pesticides: farmers continue to die as India flouts global norms

The pesticides that have killed 272 farmers in Maharashtra in the last four years are banned in most countries

What is pushing India's small dairy farmers out of business?

A new study establishes a link between global development in dairy industries and slowing down of local small-scale dairy business

The ignored sector

Post 1991, why has agriculture grown at 1 per cent while the industry at 8 per cent?

The impregnable fortress of Telangana government

Are the chief minister and his government turning a deaf ear to the people of the state?

Why India's debut farm investment support scheme is leaving out many beneficiaries

The most expensive farmer welfare scheme in Telangana is providing land-owning farmers monetary assistance even before they plant the first …

Back to nature: Immense need for crop diversification and role of agroforestry 

Input cost to increase productivity has increased over the last five decades

Government programmes to increase yield, better seeds will aid production of pulses

The demand for pulses by 2030 will be 32.64 million tonnes

Haryana tries to dissuade farmers from growing paddy, most remain sceptical

The problem started when the government encouraged the cultivation of rice under the Green Revolution in the 1960s

Voice calls to help Andhra farmers in decision-making

The interactive voice response system has been introduced in Anantapur district to cover groundnut farmers

Sugarcane crisis: Govt focuses on technology fixes, but not on mounting dues to farmers

While sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh owe about Rs 12,500 crore to farmers, the government’s measures were directed mostly towards tackling …

The minuscule system of pricing

First, a farmer must sell the produce at a price wrongly discounted by unscientific calculation. Second, an unholy nexus of many players pushes …

`It is easy to die'

Harvest of losses

Will the loan waiver announced by the Maharashtra government help alleviate farmers' plight?

An absurd tale

The astounding agricultural growth of Madhya Pradesh has many suspenses