Centre plans to construct 42 water harvesting structures every hour to counter monsoon deficit

As per government documents, the current year’s progress report on MGNREGA shows that around 33,000 structures have been completed and work …

Locust attack: ‘This is very, very rare’

Changing wind patterns in India-Pakistan and frequent cyclones in the Indian Ocean due to climate change are creating suitable breeding …

Farmers and smartphone politics

Can pre-poll sops like giving smart phones with internet connectivity to farmers increase farm income?

India's Cow Crisis Part 2: Threat of decline looms over livestock economy after 35 years’ growth

The circular economy of cattle has ruptured, threatening livelihoods of India’s poorest. The value output of the livestock economy is Rs 9.…

Locust attack: Govt caught completely unawares, minister admits

Instead of taking accountability, Rajasthan, Centre, blame each other, Pakistan

Locust attack: Swarms pose most serious threat since 1993

Area measuring 370,000 hectares in Gujarat and Rajasthan affected

Coca-Cola has closed 20 per cent of its bottling plants in India: Report

Community protests and a worsening ground water condition mainly led to the closure

Locust attack: Excessive pesticide use will take its toll on Thar ecology

The strongest pesticides used to counter locust invasions will leech into waterbodies and crops, say experts

पशु व्यापार पर प्रतिबंध से विकराल हो रही है आवारा मवेशियों की समस्या

आवारा मवेशियों की संख्या इस हद तक बढ़ गई है कि फसलों को बचाने के लिए ग्रामीणों को रातभर जागना पड़ रहा है

Aravallis broken beyond repair

Illegal mining has ravaged the mountain range in the past few decades. Down To Earth investigates the loss and traces the legal developments in …

COVID-19 outbreak: Rajasthan cumin farmers face tough time finding buyers

Rajasthan's cumin farmers have faced a series of problems

तेंदु पत्ते पर जीएसटी कितना जरूरी?

क्या तेंदु पत्तों से मिलने वाले राजस्व के लालच में इसका व्यापार जंगल में रहने वाले लोगों के हवाले नहीं किया जा रहा है?

How is fodder crisis rendering livestock vulnerable?

Today, India faces an acute fodder shortage that has left drought-hit farmers and livestock vulnerable. Jitendra finds out how fodder crisis has …

Collectors turn entrepreneurs

A forest official helps tribals add value to forest produce and earn more

Fertile rocky land

With help from a non-profit, graziers reinvent a soil conservation practice, turn into thriving farmers

Study urges government to grant community rights to local forest dwellers

In tribal-dominated areas of the country, forests have always been traditionally managed by local communities

SC directs Gujarat, Rajasthan to decentralise food procurement under ICDS

Tells states to keep big contractors out of nutrition programme for children, and pregnant and lactating women

Rajasthan faces farmers' ire for arresting their leaders ahead of indefinite protest

The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee says that the state government arrested farmer leaders on Tuesday to preempt an …

Machiavellian moves

Rajasthan's decision to bar illiterate people from contesting elections to panchayats is one more example of a state government dominating …

After an erratic monsoon, farmers in nine states struggle with pest outbreaks

Although most states in India lose five to 10 per cent of crops to pest attacks every year, the scale and intensity of the recent attacks is a …

Mr Prime Minister good news

The finance minister has said that the government is committed to double farmers' income in five years. Here are a few villages across the …

Democracy's better half

Exclusive women's village councils are beginning to make a difference in India's rural areas. Are state governments ready to share power with them?

Provide farmers with means to salvage wet grains, M S Swaminathan tells states

Agriculture scientist also suggests maintaining seed reserves for growing alternate short-duration crops

Cash transfers do not benefit

Jitendra visited three districts in Rajasthan to meet people who are supposed beneficiaries of UPA government’s much-touted Direct Benefit …

Transition failure

With an eye on the 2014 general election, the UPA government is expanding its ambitious Direct Benefit Transfer programme that promises welfare …