Chemical connection

Prolonged exposure to pesticides can lead to Type-2 diabetes

The food revolution: How your diet can help save your llife and the world

UNITED NATIONS

Rice delight

No to organic farming

What ails climate-smart agriculture in South Asia? Limited state resources & incentives, unequal tech dissemination

By 2050, South Asia will be one of the largest food-deficit regions & requires substantial increase in production to meet growing food demand

COVID-19 hurts farms: Hopes of profit dashed for Kandhamal's turmeric farmers

Farmers were forced to sell their produce at half the usual market rate two years in a row

Organic reinforcement: Here’s how chemical-free perishables can be promoted

BigBasket is the first online supermarket to have established a proper value chain for organic fruits and vegetables with direct procurement, …

Dogs can be trained to sniff out COVID-19 — a team of forensic researchers explain the science

Scientists have found dogs can be trained to successfully recognise unique volatile organic compounds, or biomarkers

How 4 school girls are trying to get Andhra farmers to practise natural farming

Zero Budget Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh has helped farmers reduce input costs, thereby reducing debt

The end of meat and GMOs or the end of us: Part 3

The third in a three-part series series on effects of GMOs and the meat industry on our environment

‘Govt is cheating us, destroying traditional agriculture’

Farmers living in tribal areas in Jharkhand alleged that industrialists and the government are conspiring to ruin diverse traditional seeds and crops

We don’t know much about air pollutants that cause every eighth death in India

Researchers at Yale University find that molecular makeup of a pollutant varies despite it being from the same environment

Farmers demand law for guaranteed income

Participants voice concern on drought, farmers' suicide and water conservation, among other issues

Pitching for sustainability in agriculture

Two films, shown recently in the Capital, focus on alternative farming strategies as a counterbalance to the ecologically destructive Green Revolution

Foot in mouth disease

Only a sea change in farming techniques will help save the European agricultural sector from disasters like the foot-and-mouth disease

The great experimenter

For ages, Indian farmers have practised ecofriendly farming by using local resources to improve soil fertility and control pests and diseases. …

Grow food anywhere

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

Groundwater quality can be improved even when mixed with nitrate-laden surface water: Study

Samples containing nitrate had higher microbial activity than those without it

Rantal: A settlement’s journey from invisibility to identity

Displaced from Bihar in 1980, a group of 42 Munda families have collectively established the organic village in Odisha

Himachal's farm success story at risk of going awry

Controlled-atmosphere farming shows a way of bucking agrarian crisis

With help from worms

Shekhawati farmers in Rajasthan go organic

Germany goes green

Environment friendly farm policies will be the new paradigm

Natural shield

Organic diet increases pesticide tolerance in children

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