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
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
Infographic: 29 farmers, farm labourers die by suicide daily
Over 5,500 farmers, 5,000 labourers died in 2020
As told to Parliament (November 30, 2021): 5,579 Indian farmers died by suicide in 2020
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Simply Put: Time to double farmer incomes
Union Budget 2022-23: How will ‘Kisan Drones’ benefit farmers, experts ask
‘Spraying pesticides and fertilisers will help industries the most‘
Five-fold rise in farmer protests in India since 2017: CSE analysis
India now has more farm labourers than farmers, according to the analysis
Deadlock: Centre asks farmer unions to get back within a day on proposal to ‘hold’ laws
Farmers to decide on next step as government puts ball in their court
Despite police action, farmers approaching Delhi for mega protest event November 26
Haryana seals its borders; farmers vow to protest wherever they are stopped
Simply Put: Victims of Lakhimpur violence
After excess rainfall, now poor prices leave Marathwada cotton farmers in debt
Excess rainfall has caused a loss of about 50 per cent across the cotton belt region
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
India’s leadership in climate resilience is rooted in its agrarian landscapes
Scaling up adaptation for farmers is a human, environmental, and economic imperative
What is behind fertiliser shortage in Andhra Pradesh
The crisis has forced farmers to buy from black market at exorbitent prices
Roots of health: How a simple processing method helps turmeric farmers earn more
Minimum processing would ensure that the benefits of turmeric are retained
Farmers prepare for mega tractor rally on January 26
Water, Marathwada women’s woe: Inclement weather affecting farmers’ mental health, social standing
Market does not support the farmers even if they manage to harvest the crops
Andhra farmers turn masons, milkmen despite state getting ‘decent’ rain; here is why
They blame lack of remuneration, rising input costs and accumulating debt
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
Smells like a fortune: Rising demand for kewda oil a blessing for 200,000 people in Odisha’s Ganjam
Price of a litre of kewda oil increased to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 4.5 lakh last year
Urbanisation, low profitability: Why prices of tamarind leaves in Andhra Pradesh have rocketed
Government should come up with ways to make tamarind cultivation lucrative