Don’t let lack of market access be a barrier in India's journey towards non-chemical farming: Experts

Policy support needed to leverage farmer-producer organisations & federations that operate in remote areas

Explainer: What is the Farmers Distress Index?

The index will try to anticipate this distress and prevent its spread from a few farmers to the village or block level

Farmyard manure in natural farming leads to higher yield than conventional method: Study

Natural farming was perceived to be more labour intensive & regular monitoring by farmers was required, survey in three states finds

Consider setting up one exclusive shop for millets in every district: Panel to Centre

Recommendations to give impetus to consumption of coarse grains and millet-based food products

After prolonged heatwave, poor monsoon rainfall threatens paddy cultivation in Bihar

Rainfall was less than normal in 37 of Bihar's 38 districts, with 10 districts witnessing a rainfall deficit of 90-100% in June

Market access critical for India’s sustainable agri transition: CSE report

The existing ecosystem is not in favour of small and marginal farmers

Call to action: Pest control actors should join hands to curtail harmful impact of rodents on India’s food production

Ecologically based rodent management has great opportunity to be adopted in the states of Madhya Pradesh & Jharkhand

In India, 191 billion potential labour hours were lost due to heat exposure in 2022: Lancet

Agricultural workers are the worst affected in many countries, with the burden often shifting to those in construction in higher income …

Rural poor lose 5% of income to heat stress every year, more vulnerable to future climate risks

Every day of extreme precipitation causes poor households to lose 0.8 per cent of their incomes relative to non-poor households

An index for monitoring effectiveness of climate-smart agriculture practices: How it can help

Awareness and training was the highest weighted dimension among the five that were used to develop the index

Mustard prices continue to stay below MSP; industry body urges government intervention

Farmers fear that prices will slip further with arrival of new mustard crop by next month, as they expect record harvest

Farmers in at least 65 countries rose up in protest since January 2023. Here’s why

Producers in South America, Europe, India, Nepal demand better prices and policies

India’s richest 5% spent 8-10 times its poorest; agri household expenditure lower than rural avg for 1st time: NSSO

Household spending increased since 1999-2000; disadvantaged sections in rural, urban India spent lowest

India’s leadership in climate resilience is rooted in its agrarian landscapes

Scaling up adaptation for farmers is a human, environmental, and economic imperative

Surface irrigation may encourage monocropping: Evidence from Telangana holds lessons for India

Providing farm households with new irrigation facilities that improve groundwater table also significantly enhances farm profits

Climate crisis: Inequality hotspot study shows where women in agriculture are hit hardest

India stood 12th on the climate change risk index in agrifood systems

Deep depression in Bay of Bengal to bring heavy unseasonal rain, strikes fear of crop loss into Odisha paddy farmers

Crops not fully reaped in some districts where government procurement is yet to start

Cotton Curse: How pink bollworm evolved to be the biggest threat for Bt cotton

Farmers say the pest has grown to become worse than the American bollworm

An old elegy for a new season

Assurance of a normal monsoon doesn’t decide agricultural performance anymore

Voice of hope: Radio Bundelkhand’s Varsha Raikwar is using communication tools to help farmers cope with climate change

The channel hosts live discussions with agricultural experts and also seeks solutions from farmers who call in

2023 in a blink: How did PM Modi’s biggest 4 ‘castes’ — poor, youth, women and farmers — fare this year

PM Modi first made the statement on November 30, 2023 during Opposition calls for nationwide caste census

Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic farming

The purely organic method of growing food involves dividing the land into zones for cereal crops, vegetables, fruiting trees and animal husbandry

Kishanganj maize farmers at wit’s end as elephant herds from Nepal raid standing crop days ahead of harvest

Although such events have occurred in the past too, their frequency has gone up, say forest officials

Back to farming roots: Odisha reinforced linkages among traditional grains, nutrition, resilience, food sovereignty 

Thousand farmers have been supported by Odisha Millets Mission (OMM) to promote millets through a farm-to-fork approach

In Tamil Nadu, a model for participatory production & distribution of farm products

Non-hierarchical collectives, horizontal networks & local markets provide a path of self-reliance to farmers in Tiruvannamalai