New crop scheme for Punjab farmers

Ban on futures trading to go

Pesticide causes blindness in fish in Punjab

To ensure food for tomorrow

Rice and wheat yields are falling. To check it a new initiative has been taken

Comparatively drier June causing problems for farmers

Latest sowing data reveals less sowing than in 2022

75 years of people’s power: Lambra in Punjab uses dry ash to treat grey water

The treatment plant works on a natural treatment system and hence no labour is involved

Deficient rainfall affects paddy, triggers drought fears in Odisha

As many as 19 districts have recorded large deficits of rainfall in August

Golden dream

Rice variety to fight vitamin A deficiency

High yields in Andhra's pesticide-free village

Best way to check arsenic residues in rice

Shifting to millets increases groundwater recharge more than drip irrigation in India’s northern plains: Study

Switching from rice to millets such as pearl millet & sorghum during the Kharif season and shifting from wheat to sorghum in the Rabi season …

Three years on, only 15% of Rs 1 lakh crore agri infrastructure fund disbursed

The scheme was launched in 2020 for the development of post-harvest infrastructure

Wheat, rice lost in transit in last 4 years could have fed 82.30 million Indians for a month

The transit foodgrain losses in the period amounted to Rs 1,109.82 crore

Pesticide guard

Plant hormone can protect rice from toxic effects of chemicals

Poor soil, global warming

The downside of using combine harvesters

Organic drive in Uttaranchal ignores farmers' concerns

Food crisis grips Bangladesh after flood and cyclone Sidr

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes

Legislation for a few

Benefits of the Act that encourages conservation of plants reach few farmers

Flood resistance rice comes to rescue

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

As told to Parliament (February 13, 2023): Climate change likely to pull down wheat yield by 6-25% in 2100, says minister

Rainfed rice yields in India are projected to reduce marginally

Basmati rice exporters demand government support to improve exports

International prices of basmati have been declining over the last two years

Food prices increase in Afghanistan amid conflict

A recent report said that 27.5 per cent of Afghanis are food insecure

Rice that binds