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

7,000 litres of oil in Sutlej

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 …

Disconnect

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

Farm laws repeal: Agri unions welcome move. But here’s why they won’t call off protest

The unions want minimum support price guarantee and the announcement to take effect through “due parliamentary procedures”

Ban lifted on fishing in Sutlej

Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large-scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs

The selenium scourge in Punjab

Two districts of Punjab -- Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahar -- have been hit by a rash of ailments. The inhabitants are experiencing hair loss, joint …

Technology interventions that save water

It was early June. Jaspal Ram of Lehra Turkot in district Bathinda of Punjab was busy in his field putting gunny bags filled with mud on a plank …

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

Ludhiana: Ineffective manhole cleanup, chemicals disposed in sewers emerge as theories for Giaspura tragedy

Steps to be taken in the event of an industrial accident or to gauge its environmental impact lacking, say experts

Sarsa: Rivulet associated with pivotal moment in Guru Gobind Singh’s life is dying

The Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial complex, one of India’s largest manufacturing hubs, is located near the Sarsa and …

Indian farmers protests: The higher the yield, the greater the discontent

Loss of faith in government due to its perceived failure on multiple fronts regarding agrarian issues in the last 11 months have now boiled over

Protesting farmers to enter Delhi after long confrontation with police

Swaraj India’s Yogendra Yadav tweeted that protesting farmers had been allowed to enter Delhi and given permission to protest at Nirankari …

Delhi air pollution crisis: CPCB advises offices to make employees ‘work from home’

The suggestion came as the overall air quality in the national capital remained ‘severe’ for a second consecutive day

North India air turns bad as winter approaches, CPCB data shows

Half of 54 cities, in six north Indian states, monitored by the CPCB, reported  ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ air

Counting north India’s stubble fires: Stronger data science needed to study winter smog

Severe smog in north India is a result of an evil alignment of many factors. Whether those factors co-conspire this year, remains to be seen

Warring over water

While issues like Cauvery water sharing and Indus Treaty figured prominently in 2016, other inter-state water conflicts could be on the anvil as …

44 per cent of India's districts face rain deficit

Major food-producing states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Punjab are the worst affected

Is rainfall linked to pollution? Depends on whether you live north or south of Vindhyas

DTE analyses PM10 spatial data for August 2022 and 2023 

Odd-and-even 2.0 worked but farm fires and forest fires played spoilsport, says CSE

Takes on motivated and half-baked science

Punjab fails to monitor GM trial

Departments express ignorance about field trials for potato