Bundled in a sacred basket

Tribal farmers in Jharkhand use mora made of rice straw to store grains

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Market pulse

Fall of golden fibre

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

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 …

Fix what is broken

To store and to have not

Poor planning creates shortage amid plenty

Trouble in store

Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free

Cool creation

A cold storage system that does without power and skilled labour has been developed

Preserving fruits

Cheap storage for potatoes

An on-farm storage facility has been developed to see potatoes through the summer

Fruitful find

Shelf-life of apples increased to eight months

Safe storage

Using a little turmeric powder mixed with rice can protect the stored grain from pests

ZAMBIA

Space savers

Rotting potatoes

More losses for Bihar farmers

Food for thought

The truth of grains

The recent starvation deaths in Orissa have thrown up a more fundamental question -- that of local food security.

South Asia

Wheat export likely

Government expects record production

Problem of plenty

Doaba farmers have more potatoes than they can sell or store

No taker for 43-year-old Save Grain campaign