Climate-smart agriculture: an answer to climate change

Sustainably increasing agricultural production, adapting to climate change and reducing emissions are the main points of climate-smart …

Punjab farmers try religious route to shun pesticides

Ask religious institutions to grow organic crops and accept organic crops as donation for langars

Orange tumbles

Nagpur orange’s survival hinges precariously on its return to sustainable cultivation. Farmers have woken up to this, but will the government?

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

Punjab's spiritual farming

It's trust vs certification

For farmers, trust sells more than organic licence

Organic drive in Uttaranchal ignores farmers' concerns

Residue standards for organic food is a step in the right direction:CSE

FSSAI's new regulations for residue standards to certify food as organic is in alignment with international best practices 

Alphonso’s last call?

The world’s best mango is perishing in coastal Maharashtra, which grows most of the crop. The culprits are climate change and unsustainable …

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 …

Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food

Perilous pesticides

Pesticide ban lands Kerala in court

Cardamom planters, pesticide makers against the ban

No pesticides no debts

How Indian states are promoting organic, natural farming

States such as Odisha and Karnataka have started initiatives such as procurement of organic produce and linkages with PDS, ICDS and other schemes&…

The magician farmer

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

Drought-proof village in bone dry district

Sehal Sagar village in Rajasthan has won the national water award instituted by the water resources ministry

Made it

Enabavi, a village of 52 families, is abuzz. It is hosting farmers from the nearby Kallem village who have come here for tips on profitable …

Crazy GM patent system

The Brazilian lawsuit against Monsanto’s royalty on soybean seeds exposes the irrational way in which laws apply to GM crops

Chella Krishnamurthy, 57, murdered

A pre-emptive strike against Monsanto

American organic farmers are trying to ensure the biotech giant cannot sue them

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

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India cannot afford organic farming

S K SINHA national professor at the Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, spoke to Manish Tiwari on food …

Dying fields

The Green Revolution and use of high-yielding varieties has led to depletion of vital micronutrients