‘Crop residue can boost soil health’

Andy MacDonald, manager, Rothamsted long-term experiments, Rothamsted Research, UK, speaks to Down To Earth on key findings of the Broadbalk …

Organic livestock farming: A revolution in the making

Ensuring a profound balance in the functionalities between the organic suppliers and the global market might just turn out to be most influential …

Breaking new ground: World’s longest running farm study adds to organic-inorganic debate

The aim of the Broadbalk experiment is to test the effects of different organic and inorganic fertilisers on soil fertility and study the optimum …

Livestock manure not so safe for food production

An FAO report highlights that livestock manure is one of the top sources of soil contamination

Recognising the role of pastoralists in agrarian development

The farmer-herder relationship of mutual benefit and care is threatened by commercialisation of agriculture

Farm waste, a significant source of antimicrobial resistance

Current manure treatment technologies not enough to reduce entry of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant genes into the environment, says a study

Sikkim is 100% organic! Take a second look

The state's transition to organic farming is yet to become a true success

Himachal plagued by fertiliser scarcity as apple season peaks

If apple trees do not get fertilisers at the right time, it will result in less flowering, less production and low quality apples

Gujarat villages need subsidy for biogas. But there's no one to pay

There is a void since Gujarat Agro Industries stopped paying from 2017

Promoting millets: the wheel need not be reinvented

New policy could be detrimental to millet farming

Shit, it's profitable

Bengaluru farmers have revived the practice of using human excreta as manure. This has created an informal economy that is benefiting many

The magician farmer

How a farmer from Bihar used magic tricks to convert others in his village to organic farming