'Empower women in panchayats first to improve the status of women farmers'

Renowned scientist M S Swaminathan spoke to Kundan Pandey on the private member’s bill initiated by him in Rajya Sabha in 2011 to protect …

Hasan Abed wins World Food Prize for pulling 150 million people out of poverty

From development of scalable models to integration of scientific innovation and local participation, the pioneer has formulated many strategies

Holistic approach to farming can mitigate agrarian crisis: M S Swaminathan

Scientist highlights the failure of agricultural universities in India

Do we have the answers?

Troubled by the growing farmer unrest, M S Swaminathan, father of India's Green Revolution, raises a few questions for the country's agriculture …

'Space missions can change the technology environment of a country'

NASA scientist says India needs to attract talent into science, not management

Farmers feel left out

The budget is more concerned about the consumer than the grower

Kisan Kranti Yatra: Another farmers’ protest goes awry

Around 30,000 farmers, who had been walking to the national capital for 10 days, were welcomed with lathis, water cannons and tear gas shells

UN's agricultural development agency chief reverses stand supporting India on WTO

IFAD president Nwanze says he was misquoted by media and only supported India's food security law

Obituary: Former health secy Keshav Desiraju fought hard against corruption in health industry

He was summarily transferred to the ministry of consumer affairs during his tenure as the health secy

How currency ban negated the effects of a good monsoon

Agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan thinks that the timing of demonetisation is proving worse for farmers

Linkage between science and public policy has weakened

M S Swaminathan, popularly known as the father of India’s Green Revolution, has been associated with national agricultural research system (…

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

Hike in wheat MSP unlikely to help distressed farmers

The recent hike in Minimum Support Price on wheat will still not meet the Centre’s promise to ensure MSP 50 per cent higher than the cost …

Opposition unites on agrarian crisis, Centre yet to reply to farmers' demands

Farmer organisations have urged the Centre to pass two pass bills to free farmers from indebtedness and guarantee price for their produce

Another set of distressed farmers protest, but does govt get a hint?

One more farmer protest in the national capital makes headlines, but it may have just added to the long list of such outcries

‘Millets can solve our food needs as climate changes’

Experts and policy makers say millets are what we need to adapt to climate change as they can even grow in drought conditions

GM crop benefits are all in future

Nearly 40 years ago, Marc Van Montagu of Ghent University in Belgium, along with fellow researcher Jeff Schell, discovered that Agrobacterium …

Coastal management rules under review

Lack of funding for top health research body

The Indian Council of Medical Research has only half the funds it needs

Rajasthan scraps seed pacts

ICAR tells Rajasthan to wait for guidelines on benefit sharing, biosafety

Government is offering farmers ‘death by committee’: Experts

The government had offered to form a committee to discuss three farm laws in talks with farmers December 1

Millets farmers need more post-harvest technologies

At a discussion held in Chennai, experts and scientists gave a number of suggestions for policy-level changes to promote millets

Point of no agri-returns Part 5: 50,000 dedicated scientists, still, agriculture is an orphan of science

Technologies developed for agricultural purposes are mostly limited to farms around research institutions, says a government report

PM should head food security bill: M S Swaminathan

Giving right to food is not enough to deliver food, say speakers at a conference on food security

Everyone DOESN’T need booster jabs of COVID-19 vaccines: Lancet study (but are the rich countries reading?)

Access to vaccination has been vastly inequal; Booster doses in developed countries will further squeeze out low, mid-income …