Ploughing on in Punjab

How successful will the state's crop deversification scheme be?

Pests ruin paddy on 89,000 ha

Farmers destroy DuPont’s GM rice

Demand Karnataka be declared a transgenic-free state

Russia bans rice imports from India claiming pesticide contamination

Uttar Pradesh's terai experiences untimely fog

News for farmers

India’s pulses problem: We need real reform

The government needs to revise its pricing policy to incentivise pulses production

Grains of culture

Why China lost out to Europe in industrialisation

New strain of rice

The arsenic affinity

Stadium in deep water

Kerala cricket association clears wetland trees to build stadium

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

Mangoes lost 150 years ago

A Karnataka farmer conserves mangoes lost 150 years ago

Survey exposes Philippines' rice research body

Rice for dry areas

Drought-tolerant genes mapped in Indian variety

Drought unleashes starvation

Officials admit to 10 deaths in Jharkhand's backward district, actual number might be 20

Stars dont foretell any more

Sahyadris have been documenting the changing climate for 40 years

A question of political will

Two innovative states prove PDS can be made efficient

Foodwise

Farmers in Maharashtra revive 120 varieties of local crops

IN FOCUS

Pest control

Golden cure

Amon crops survive pest threat

Rodents destroy crops in Mizoram

Shrimp lose shine in Bangladesh