Will India’s new agricultural export policy work?
Food grain buffers exceed need, global prices remain depressed
The sugarcane story: Not at all short and sweet
Here’s all about the political economy of the sugarcane crisis
How corrupt nexus between sugar industry, governments affects farmers
India is the second-largest producer of sugar in the world, after Brazil
India’s Cow Crisis Part 5: Penalty for abandoning cattle final nail in coffin
The increasing trend of legal penalty for abandonment will backfire
Union Budget 2020-21: Not one to double farmers' income
Last year's allocartion goes unspent; this year's raise less than 3%
India’s Cow Crisis Part 4: The stigma of Mewat
How this backward district in Haryana has borne the brunt of stringent cow-related laws
Budget 2020-21: Expect direct benefit transfer for urea
Move to aim at controlling excessive urea usage and promoting zero-budget farming
Pulses production in 2019-20 will reduce due to erratic monsoon: IPGA
Trade body also demands of removal of import restriction and quota on green peas
Global seed market crossed $45 billion in 2018: Report
Asia, Europe and Middle East-Africa main drivers of growth
Centre launches dedicated website to contain Fall Armyworm
The next step should be to exempt anti-FAW equipment from GST, say experts
Fall Armyworm detected on sugarcane crops in Tamil Nadu
Worm found in four sugarcane fields in the districts of Erode and Karur
Government denies demonetisation affected agriculture
Denial comes after agriculture ministry tells Parliament panel cash crunch hurt farmers
SC okays Monsanto’s patent claim over Bt cotton
The agri-business giant earlier had a setback at Delhi high court
Farmers want Modi to avoid unfair trade deals with Trump
Expresses concern over possible access of US agri products to Indian markets
Govt hikes Rabi crops’ MSP minimally
Increase in MSP of wheat is the lowest in the last six years
Recent Fall Armyworm invasion could be global, warn scientists
Such an occurrence could put world food security at risk
Union Budget 2020-21: Total rural budgetary allocation, including MGNREGA slashed
This comes even as rural India is suffering its worst unemployment crisis in 45 years
Kisan Mukti March: Farmers from across India take to Delhi roads
This is the fourth farmer protest in the Capital in the last 18 months
COVID-19 outbreak: Rajasthan cumin farmers face tough time finding buyers
Rajasthan's cumin farmers have faced a series of problems
Union Budget 2020-21: An expert’s guide to rural distress
Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget has all the ingredients to deepen India’s farm crisis
Court penalises Vision Organics for supplying spurious pesticides in MP
This is first-of-its-kind case in Madhya Pradesh where farmers approached court and won
Loopholes galore in implementation of PM-Kisan
The major drawback in the scheme is its design, which has deprived farmers from reaping the benefits it promised
More than 30 per cent of world’s organic producers are in India
But they are mostly marginal farmers sharing only 2.59 per cent of total area under organic cultivation
The sweet dealers
Some of India’s top politicians have a deep interest in the sugar industry. Here’s why
Farmers suffer as states yet to declare drought
31% of the districts in India are struck by drought according to IMD but many states are yet to declare drought, leaving the already agonised …