IIT Mandi researchers use mathematical modelling to sharpen images

Active imagign techniques, like flash modes, often introduce noise in photographs

Simply put: Indian farmers’s (para) freedom

After-effects of new farm laws: Why is there chaos in the mandis

The first kharif season after deregulation of the agriculture market is underway. The government has started procuring paddy at minimum support …

Punjab procures wheat in the shadow of COVID-19

Here are the problems farmers face despite government efforts

Why the new farm laws will not level the playing field

Creation of unregulated private points of sale will only ensure that the produce continues to be sold as before — at below MSP and without …

Police vehicle to be confiscated

60% wheat remains ‘unlifted’ from Punjab mandis

Amritsar and Tarn Taran Sahib have the highest amount of unlifted wheat in Punjab, 13 days after procurement started

Wheat procurement season near, but no word from Punjab on direct MSP payment

The FCI in March asked Punjab government to give it land records of farmers to enable direct, online payment of MSP. The state has not …

Looking at the farm laws from an economic perspective

The purpose of the new farm laws is to end the historic exploitation of farmers at the APMC markets and free them from the clutches of the …

Why rich and poor farmers demand MSP, government intervention in market

Agriculture not possible without government support, rue farmers 

Farm laws 2020: Who are they meant to serve?

In rushing the farm bills through Parliament on strength of numbers, the Union government seems to have handed short end of the stick to states …

Onion price crash: Maharashtra farmers to protest next week unless government increases costs

Onion prices at Lasalgaon Mandi have fallen even below production cost after NAFED released stocks in the market

Taking farm laws to Supreme Court won’t dampen farmers’ protests: Kerala agriculture minister

Kerala’s decision to move the apex court against Modi government’s new farm laws have sparked discussions. DTE spoke to minister VS …

Will intensify protest: Farmer leaders reject Union govt draft seeking to break deadlock

Farmer unions call for major countrywide protest December 14; blocking of Delhi-Jaipur Highway, Yamuna Expressway by December 12

Himachal flash floods: Met warns of more events in mountains of north India

Flash floods and cloudburts have been reported in districts of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, including the Ladakh region

Shortage of labourers, gunny bags: Punjab in a spot over wheat procurement

The process started April 10, but ran into several hassles on the first 2 days. It has been slow across the state; has not even started at some …

Bring law to guarantee minimum support price: Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

RSS organ voices opposition to provisions of recent farm laws after farmers across spectrum hit streets in protest

Modi govt gets farmers Bills cleared amid steep opposition; minister Badal resigns

GRAVE WARNINGS: Farmers can't match up to buyers, MSPs would fall, states will lose revenue

Himachal farmers have an affair with flowers

Farmers in Himachal Pradesh are ditching traditional food crops to grow aromatic plants that offer higher and assured returns

Himachal farmers start growing pomegranate and cabbage, as apple lines recede due to climate change

The apple growing belt is shifting to higher altitudes and intercropping in apple orchards with vegetable crops as it experiences warmer winters …

India’s agrarian distress: How dissent has been on the rise

At least 50 major protests were reported across 20 Indian states in 9 months between January and September 2020

It’s been a dry winter in the hills & plains of North India. Here’s why

Infrequent or weak western disturbances from mid-November through the third week of January have affected Rabi crops

By pushing farm Bills through, Modi government has put democracy at crossroads

KK Ragesh of CPI (M), who called for a division vote against the 3 farm Bills passed in Monsoon Session and was suspended from Rajya Sabha, …

Banking on variety

Himachal villagers resist pine monoculture, reclaim forests for fodder

Ranbaxy expansion in a ferment