India’s agrarian distress: Is farming a dying occupation

Farmers across the globe are quitting their business, while the rural youth population is increasing. Who will grow our food?

सुनारों की नहीं, किसानों की है अक्षय तृतीया

अक्षय तृतीया सिर्फ सोना खरीदने का दिन नहीं है यह किसानों के लिए कृषि के नए चक्र की शुरुआत का भी दिन है।

Reclaiming retail democracy

पहला पेशा, अंतिम मौका

करीब 120 वर्षों से कृषि शिक्षा के जरिए भारत की खेती-किसानी को समृद्ध और किसानों को खुशहाल बनाने का दावा किया जा रहा है। ...

No land to farm

With urbanisation of rural areas, space for food production in India is decreasing

कौन लिख रहा है किसानों का मर्सिया

एक किसान के पास अब निवेश के लिए आधार पूंजी भी नहीं है और न ही उसमें कृषि क्षेत्र में वापस जाने के लिए ...

Why farmers are not cheering their exceptional feat this kharif season

Highest rice acreage in six years, more farmers in farms, a bounty monsoon and an expected bumper harvest don't enthuse farmers as their …

Time for climate lesson

A Nepal school that imparts practical knowledge to farmers

Death on mounds of a bumper crop

As corruption hijacks procurement centres in Bundelkhand, farmers prefer suicide to a debt trap. Richard Mahapatra reports from Uttar Pradesh …

Will diesel subsidy help farmers tide over drought?

Drought and livestock

Do public protests decide election results?

Research gives a mixed verdict but given India’s socio-economic reality, protests do impact election results

Seeds of hope

Northern Bangladesh successfully fights its age-old famine-like situation by creating a new cropping season and introducing lost indigenous rice …

Rise of livestock

Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain

No two droughts are alike

Bring farmers to farms

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming

सदी के पहले 20 बरस में जलवायु परिवर्तन से पैदा हुआ 70 फीसदी वैश्विक खेती पर खतरा

जलवायु परिवर्तन के कारण हर वर्ष आपदाओं में 60 हजार लोग जान गंवा रहे हैं। साथ ही दो दशकों में जलवायु संबंधी आपदाओं में ...

Two seasons of separation and a deep political desperation

It feels good that agriculture features high in political discourse but, again, it is misdirected

Born at 44

Odisha village gets pattas after nearly half a century. Land reform programmes get jumpstart

Acquisition made easy

Land grab fallout

Scramble to buy land in foreign countries to grow more food leaves more people hungry

कैसे दोगुनी होगी किसानों की आय?

मोदी ने दो साल पहले भी 2022 तक आमदनी को दोगुना करने का वादा किया था। इस दफा उन्होंने नए भारत के अजेंडे की ...

Only 15% landholders earn 91% of total national income

Income inequality makes agrarian crisis challenging; inequality is worse among farmers than the formal economy

A grain revolution for Africa

In just a few decades, Africa has become a net food importer. But it has to feed more and more people in the future. Estimates suggest the …