Small-scale markets will be a win-win for marginal farmers, buyers of cultivated bamboo

It will encourage small farmers to scale up existing bamboo plantations and take up new ones

Meet Padma Bombale, a Maharashtra onion farmer fighting the odds

A landless farmer from Vetale village near Pune, she has to work for Rs 100 a day to make ends meet

Collective response: Group farming helps small, landless farmers amid COVID-19 pandemic

Putting a new twist to an idea can provide a much-needed cushion to India’s bottom-of-the-pyramid farmers in trying times

Agriculture the biggest earner and biggest victim of climate change in Zambia

While droughts and floods have wreaked havoc on the sector, change in farming practices can bring about a better tomorrow

Dairy units in India turn to cheaper alternatives

This strikes a blow to small farmers as they don't get a fair price for their produce since the market is flooded with cheaper options

Providing the poorest landless agricultural labourers with farm tools can ameliorate their lot

An intervention carried out in Nandurbar, Maharashtra showed that the labourers earned more, in addition to increasing agricultural productivity

Capital labour rush

A drought-like condition at home and long-term employment opportunity in Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh, are fuelling migration …

Land reforms needed for Punjab’s marginalised farmers, farm workers: Study

Research shows that bigger the farm, greater are the consumption levels; also, caste-based discrimination becomes overt at higher levels of living

India needs 30,000 agri-markets to give fair deal to farmers

For 47 years, government has not acted on recommendation of upgrading rural markets into business hubs  

Gramin Agricultural Markets: Two years on, just 6% haats upgraded

The Centre had announced a scheme in the 2018-19 budget to upgrade rural haats so that small farmers could get fair prices for their produce

Why inequality is India’s worst enemy

India’s per capita gross domestic product increased five times between 2000 and 2019. The income, however, is concentrated only in a few …

Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse

Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group

COVID 19: Punjab’s rural economy takes a big hit

Small farmers, labourers among the worst-hit; wheat harvest under cloud

Small farmers, daily wagers take to vegetable retail selling in Himachal due to lockdown

The development is being seen as a positive outcome of the COVID-19 lockdown

Why farmers are not cheering their exceptional feat this kharif season

Highest rice acreage in six years, more farmers in farms, a bounty monsoon and an expected bumper harvest don't enthuse farmers as their …

COVID-19: Sitharaman’s second tranche of economic stimulus fails to enthuse

Experts question announcements made for street vendors, small and marginal farmers and migrant workers

UBI can be a game changer

Experiments carried out in Indore have shown positive behavioural changes among people

High-tech on the ground: Blockchain technology to boost small farm incomes

Three-way partnership between ICRISAT, Eleven01 and KHETHINEXT to create a transparent marketplace

Salt rush

Every year, marginal farmers from across the country travel to Mumbai's saltpans to earn some extra money

Andhra Pradesh extends support to SC women farmers for natural farming push

The government will use its extensive network of women’s self-help groups to encourage the transition.  

New regulations to certify organic food likely to favour big brands

Worse, the government's latest move to regulate the domestic organic market can also push tens of thousands of organic farmers out of business

Here's why 40% of India's farmers want to quit

A vicious cycle of debt and loan waivers is worsening the plight of the marginal and tenant farmer

Crafty accounting

The budget projects a pro-poor image, while covertly playing to the market

Include millets in PDS for food and nutritional security, demand scientists

Area under cultivation of millets is declining in spite of national Food Security Mission