Hope for vultures

Farmers oppose WTO

Subterranean blues

Subsoil carcinogens possible cause of cancer in Punjab

Live water storage in reservoirs at the end of monsoon less than 2020

Punjab recorded the highest deficit of 40%

What exactly are cattle fed?

In Punjab, too much limestone powder and urea: adulteration hardly a bother for feed-makers

Punjab crop loss spurs debate on pesticide use

COVID-19 vaccine update: People above 45 eligible for jabs from April 1

Ministry of Home Affairs releases updated guidelines for COVID-19 control

16 people lose eyesight after cataract surgery at a camp in Punjab

Preliminary findings to be submitted by Friday evening

Of plants and bees

Depleting honeybees threaten biodiversity

In short

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

Drug abuse

Ranbaxy, Dutch pharma put paid to groundwater

Indus dolphin in Punjab

Cotton Curse: Tired of losses, farmers giving up cotton on a large scale

The production of cotton in Punjab has almost halved in the past decade

Cotton Curse: How pink bollworm developed resistance to Bt Cotton

Entomologists say early and late sowing, long-duration crops and not planting other varieties against advice may have contributed to resistance …

The minimum support price conundrum and Indian farming

MSP had no legal sanction when it was conceived and can also be challenged now

Organic v conservative

Scientists contest an age-old agricultural technique

Are pills doctored?

A Punjab resident holds inferior quality drugs responsible for his son's serious illness

Disconnect

Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …

7,000 litres of oil in Sutlej

Cotton Curse: No buyers for salvaged produce after pink bollworm wreaks havoc

Labourers refuse to pick leftover crop as yield too low and traders refuse to buy citing poor quality

Go ahead

Six GM cotton varieties to be cultivated in three states

Come without your car