Reclaiming retail democracy

No land to farm

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

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

सुनारों की नहीं, किसानों की है अक्षय तृतीया

अक्षय तृतीया सिर्फ सोना खरीदने का दिन नहीं है यह किसानो�…

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

Two seasons of separation and a deep political desperation

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

किसानों का मर्सिया

अर्थव्यवस्था पर सरकार का डेटा चिंताजनक है। वित्तीय वर्�…

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

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 …

More than 50% of India’s tribal population has moved out of traditional habitats

Tribals are quitting farming fast; every second household now survives on manual labour in an informal economy

India needs 30,000 agri-markets to give fair deal to farmers

For 47 years, government has not acted on recommendation of upgrading rural markets into business hubs  

NITI Aayog wants to hand over micro irrigation to private players

The government policy think tank believes it would take 100 years to exploit the micro irrigation potential with the current programme target and …

जुदा है यह मानसून

लगातार तीन वर्षों से सूखे और की मार झेल रहे किसानों की आय…

Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse

Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group