राहत की रस्म अदायगी

2009 में बुंदेलखंड में सूखे से निपटने के लिए 7,266 करोड़ रुपए क…

Why India continues to use lethal pesticides

Death of cotton farmers due to pesticide poisoning in the Vidarbha region raises vital questions about the government's attitude towards …

“असंवेदनशील शासन से नहीं निकलेगा समस्या का समाधान”

पीवी राजगोपाल उर्फ राजाजी आज देशभर के किसानों की एक सशक�…

चूक गए तो चुक गए

ऐसा नहीं है कि सिर्फ मध्य प्रदेश में ही किसान सड़कों पर ह…

Farmers don’t commit suicide, they make sacrifice

In India, 34 farmers commit suicide every day; but the question is what drives them to do it?

Monument to hunger

The 1784 famine of Lucknow region and a nawab's philanthropic gesture gave us a magnificent monument

Despite farmer marches, Centre plans no debt waiver

Such waivers may impact the credit culture of a State, says junior argiculture minister Parshottam Rupala 

Opposition unites on agrarian crisis, Centre yet to reply to farmers' demands

Farmer organisations have urged the Centre to pass two pass bills to free farmers from indebtedness and guarantee price for their produce

Another set of distressed farmers protest, but does govt get a hint?

One more farmer protest in the national capital makes headlines, but it may have just added to the long list of such outcries

Boom in farm produce not reason enough to celebrate

Farmers are in distress owing to low farm prices, poor logistics for transport and government-assured purchases

Draft Bill faces criticism for making farm workers, dealers responsible for spurious pesticides

Shifting liability from manufacturers to pesticide dealers and farmers in case of any incident was opposed by farmer groups

जुदा है यह मानसून

लगातार तीन वर्षों से सूखे और की मार झेल रहे किसानों की आय…

Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse

Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group

State election results grim reminder to how deep India’s rural crisis is

The Down To Earth’s coverage in the recent past has highlighted how the agrarian crisis led to what happened to BJP in Assembly polls

Doubling farmers’ income discussed in a closed door meeting

What is the use of strategy when no special budget was allocated to double farmers’ income, says a senior NITI Aayog official anonymously

Where will farmers go to get jobs?

There is a significant reduction in farm jobs. India must create alternative opportunities for those abandoning agriculture

जानवरों से फसलों को बचाएगा यंत्र

यह यंत्र अलार्म एवं रोशनी के जरिये खेत में जानवरों क�…

Limited access to pesticides reduced suicides in Tamil Nadu villages: WHO report

In rural India, poisoning accounts for four in 10 suicides due to swallowing of pesticides

बिहार के 18 जिलों में फीसदी से कम हुई बारिश, फसल के नुकसान का अंदेशा

जुलाई-अगस्त में बाढ़ का कहर झेल चुका बिहार अब सूखे की चपे…

New mobile app launched to assist farmers

The application called Meghdoot would be available for 150 districts in different parts of the country

Blazing India: Labourers, farmers struggle most to live, earn

A new set of victims are people in hilly regions areas who are not prepared for such high temperatures

देश में 34 हजार मंडियों की कमी, किसान कहां बेचें अपने उत्पाद?

राजनीतिक दलों को किसान की चिंता तो है, लेकिन उनके पास मंड…

Himachal's farm success story at risk of going awry

Controlled-atmosphere farming shows a way of bucking agrarian crisis

20,000 drought-hit tribal farmers march to Mumbai

This is the third mass farmer protest the state has witnessed this year

Farmer producer organisations need their very own Amul

Instead of encouraging them on paper, the government has to create a few model FPOs in the country and provide institutional support to them