Cotton Curse: Bt Cotton losses by pink bollworm pushing farmers to brink of suicide

Part 1: Recurring losses due to pests in North India compounding farmers’ distress, finds DTE ground report 

Fields on fire: Punjab, Haryana farmers start burning paddy stubble to make way for vegetables

NASA shows 222 incidents of stubble burning in September; Amritsar, Tarn Taran hotspots

Sweet and sticky

Easy-to-digest saathi rice is a good choice for making kheer and khichdi

To store and to have not

Poor planning creates shortage amid plenty

Why was post-Diwali air quality better this year?

Wind speed, warmer temperatures helped disperse pollutants 

Diwali pollution: Delhi air quality to be in ‘poor’ & ‘very poor’ categories today, tomorrow

Fire count due to stubble burning low over northwest Delhi as on October 23

What will Supreme Court judgement on Aravalli mean for forest conservation?

Changes to conservation rules may be fast tracked, say activists

NGT orders shut 15 chemical industrial units in Haryana for flouting norms

Experts express concern, point at state pollution control board for poor implementation

Policy Backfires

Policy design allows dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil to flourish 

Car-free Gurgaon, really?

It seemed more like a “no parking day” in the city

Hope for vultures

Lethal find

Scientists find high arsenic content in Haryana's groundwater

A sunny mandate

Solar water heating system in Haryana's private buildings

How NREGA helped Panihari village

Reserve game

Farmers move court against Gorakhpur nuclear power plant in Haryana

Plant site is fertile land and sustains 10,000 people

Callous forest law

Power-packed option

Even remote areas can be electrified through biomass gasification

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

Cotton Curse: Tired of losses, farmers giving up cotton on a large scale

The production of cotton in Punjab has almost halved in the past decade

Cotton Curse: How pink bollworm developed resistance to Bt Cotton

Entomologists say early and late sowing, long-duration crops and not planting other varieties against advice may have contributed to resistance …

The minimum support price conundrum and Indian farming

MSP had no legal sanction when it was conceived and can also be challenged now

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness