Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Death on mounds of a bumper crop

As corruption hijacks procurement centres in Bundelkhand, farmers prefer suicide to a debt trap. Richard Mahapatra reports from Uttar Pradesh …

No taker for 43-year-old Save Grain campaign

Piecemeal proposals

The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain (Read full article)

Trouble in store

Farmers on holiday

Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space

Punjab fails to monitor GM trial

Departments express ignorance about field trials for potato

Give small players in food retail a new deal

Fix what is broken

Baiga agriculture can solve problems that plague modern systems

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Grain warehouse workers prone to respiratory diseases

Market pulse

Fall of golden fibre

An inefficient industry is marring prospects of jute, paving way for plastics

In short

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

Mint relieves pain, acts as food preservative

Parliament committee proposes no increase in foodgrain entitlement in Food Security Bill

States given the responsibility of expanding food security net to cover more households

Science & Technology - Briefs

Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free

Dangers ahead at WTO

The trade facilitation agreement paves the way for fresh pressures on developing countries such as tariff cuts on industrial products

India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

Veggies delight

The rising demand for vegetables has opened up a money-making opportunity for small farmers. Already reeling from recurring droughts and …

Unravelling the food mess

Reaching food to people who need it the most has remained one of the most stubborn problems in India. The public distribution system (PDS) is in …