Operation pest guard

Integrated pest management treatments come to the rescue of cotton farmers

Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates

No free lunches in India

The cheap car spin-off

Our voice

Fertilizer subsidy fuelling food shortage

Parliament panel says no to FDI in retail

POSCO looms over Republic Day

Will diplomacy determine steel plants future?

No one is following regulations

Farmers take no permission, officers do not survey wells

Seed bill retake

Monitor seed prices, not just quality, say farmer groups  

Dam in check

In an atmosphere of deepening mistrust on the India-Nepal border, Bihar farmers find it difficult to build check dam

Will intensify protest: Farmer leaders reject Union govt draft seeking to break deadlock

Farmer unions call for major countrywide protest December 14; blocking of Delhi-Jaipur Highway, Yamuna Expressway by December 12

Maharashtra rejects more agri insurance claims even as farm suicides double

No data on suicides across India since 2015; number of claim rejections far exceeded number of cases approved in 2016-18

Fertile rocky land

With help from a non-profit, graziers reinvent a soil conservation practice, turn into thriving farmers

Dam of defiance

The Chikkapaclasolagi barrage, on the River Krishna in Karnataka, is said to be the country's first "people's dam". But having built …

Seeds for Iife

Scientists and NGOs find common ground in ensuring that farmers possess the divers they can use and conserve

Aliens!

Weeds acquire strange resistance to herbicides. Nature seems to go haywire. And causing all the confusion are genetically modified organisms, …

‘Compost too needs subsidy’

Agriculture scientist Preeti Joshi  has the recipe for the perfect compost and has been promoting it in Wardha district of Maharashtra for …

What's the fuss about Bt brinjal?

Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Mondal, director-general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), is among the handful of people who have …

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

Failing crops cause Ethiopian farmers to migrate and become susceptible to diseases

Double infection by kalaazar and HIV have made treatment difficult in the country

Mangoes lost 150 years ago

A Karnataka farmer conserves mangoes lost 150 years ago

Dissent on Seeds Bill

Kerala and Bihar want amendments

Climate has changed

Admits the World Meteorological Organization

Syngenta for import of its genetically modified maize

Syngenta charts new GMpath