Himachal farmers now poisoning monkeys

Farmers have confirmed this development, which means the whole issue takes an entirely new dimension

Bitter end to sweet limes: Farmers in parched Marathwada forced to uproot citrus orchards

Growers grapple with financial burden as water tankers become only lifeline for citrus trees

Two years of Dhinkia violence: Villagers observe ‘Black Day’ in Bhubaneswar

Thirty people from Dhinkia sustained injuries after police baton-charged agitators trying to protect their betel vineyards from acquisition for …

Maharashtra unseasonal rains likely to damage onions, wheat, grapes

Along with a drop in price, the conditions will bolster pest attacks, farmers say

Simply Put: Minimum support panel

Simply Put: The Matryoshka hand

Bihar farmers question government decision to end diesel subsidy for them

Power supply in villages still uncertain, they say

Three ways farms of the future can feed the planet and heal it too

Crops, trees and livestock in harmony; pesticides no more; small tech, big difference

Why Bhavnagar farmers oppose limestone mining

Letter to high court-appointed panel lists reasons

Cropping frequency decline due to climate change may impact food security: Study

Irrigation effectively offsets the projected production loss, but irrigated areas have to be expanded by over 5%

Has bureaucratic bungling led to problems for natural farming scheme in Andhra Pradesh

Five years after it was launched, non-payment of staff salaries, excessive hype plague the scheme, observers say

Addressing internal and external market challenges key for supporting India’s apple farmers

Measures like market intervention schemes for remunerative prices, improved institutional support & comprehensive strategies to resolve value …

Life or livelihood: COVID-19 second wave puts up tough choice for Himachal farmers

Farmers caught between life and livelihood as second wave coincides with the year’s only farming season

Acute urea shortage, black marketing upset farmers during ongoing rabi season in Bihar

Farmers blame powerful nexus of traders and government officials for fertiliser shortage

Why have Punjab & Haryana farmers started clearing fields so early in 2023?

Usually, stubble clearance in these two states starts around mid-October and peaks around Diwali; but this time, extreme rains in September …

Will Bihar farmers have to shift from paddy? Changing rainfall patterns hint at that

State agriculture department has advised farmers to opt for less water-intensive alternatives like maize

Losing a calf to wolves in Sweden hurts. But if lions take one in Uganda, a farming family’s income is gone

Earth’s most economically vulnerable people are key to conservation success for carnivores. Unfortunately, they are also the most at risk …

Ethiopia releases atlas to map livestock disease caused by the tsetse fly

African animal trypanosomosisis, caused by tsetse fly, is a huge problem for African livestock farmers

1 out of 3 farmers are tenants in Telangana; are excluded from any government support

The Telangana government has declared its flagship cash transfer scheme to be for the support of farmers; but the money goes to landowners  

Compensate Telangana farmers immediately for crop loss: Farm activists

The Rythu Swarajya Vedika called on both Centre and state, to bury their hatchet and ensure disaster relief to lakhs of affected farmers  

Food as history: Cambridge studies cast new light on early Anglo-Saxon kings’ relations with peasants by studying their diets

The studies note that social status did not lead to kings and nobles eating more meat than peasants; but once a year, both did gorge on animals …

‘Africa needs support for climate forecasting infrastructure’

The current observation network is only one-eighth the required minimum density over the continent  

Why India needs to bring back nature-positive farming

The pandemic showed that human interventions in natural processes can have disastrous consequences; we should now scale up natural-positive food …

Home truth of Indian agriculture: Farm income declined in India in 7 years

The average monthly income per farm household (considering only the paid out expenditure) is not the same as ‘net income / receipt earned …

International Women’s day: How Telangana’s women farm hands turned farmers

The concept of group farming in not new in the state but it had majorly been out of practice for some years now