Addressing internal and external market challenges key for supporting India’s apple farmers
Measures like market intervention schemes for remunerative prices, improved institutional support & comprehensive strategies to resolve value …
Why have Punjab & Haryana farmers started clearing fields so early in 2023?
Usually, stubble clearance in these two states starts around mid-October and peaks around Diwali; but this time, extreme rains in September …
Will Bihar farmers have to shift from paddy? Changing rainfall patterns hint at that
State agriculture department has advised farmers to opt for less water-intensive alternatives like maize
Ethiopia releases atlas to map livestock disease caused by the tsetse fly
African animal trypanosomosisis, caused by tsetse fly, is a huge problem for African livestock farmers
1 out of 3 farmers are tenants in Telangana; are excluded from any government support
The Telangana government has declared its flagship cash transfer scheme to be for the support of farmers; but the money goes to landowners
Cropping frequency decline due to climate change may impact food security: Study
Irrigation effectively offsets the projected production loss, but irrigated areas have to be expanded by over 5%
Home truth of Indian agriculture: Farm income declined in India in 7 years
The average monthly income per farm household (considering only the paid out expenditure) is not the same as ‘net income / receipt earned …
International Women’s day: How Telangana’s women farm hands turned farmers
The concept of group farming in not new in the state but it had majorly been out of practice for some years now
Crop risks, environmental damages, hunger and the 2020 farm laws
Improved access to new markets, better yields and higher income need to safeguard environmental sustainability and farmers’ indebtedness
Economic stimulus package on Day 3 a repetition of budget: Experts
The announcement included some major policy shifts that may have far-reaching consequences
Lighting up the fields: How electricity can help irrigation
Over the years, inaccurate estimations of electricity consumption have led to untargeted approaches being applied to optimise power sector
Fishing, agriculture impacted by burning river in Upper Assam: Residents
They alleged the administration was slow to respond to the crisis as the affected area had been supporting anti-CAA protestors
Why the new farm laws will not level the playing field
Creation of unregulated private points of sale will only ensure that the produce continues to be sold as before — at below MSP and without …
Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic farming
The purely organic method of growing food involves dividing the land into zones for cereal crops, vegetables, fruiting trees and animal husbandry
African swine fever: Kerala to buy all healthy pigs to help farmers after Wayanad outbreak
Some 360 pigs culled last weekend after detection of disease on two farms in Wayanad
One farmer/farm labourer dies by suicide every hour in India: NCRB data
An emerging and worrying trend from the NCRB data was that deaths by suicide of agricultural labourers was higher than cultivators
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
How accurate long-range forecasts of monsoon onset can be climate adaptation tool for farmers
Study looks into farmers’ behaviour based on forecast information, insurance in 250 Telangana villages
June-August dry spell, heavy September rain signs of climate change: Odisha experts
Erratic rainfall, floods, water-logging, cyclones and sea erosion are factors that make Odisha a state highly exposed to climate change,…
A land imagined: Indigenous crops help Marathwada women in adding to family nutrition
Women in Maharashtra's Marathwada region reclaim parts of their farmland to grow produce of choice and to ensure nutrition security of their …
Historic win for farmer seed rights: PepsiCo’s IPR on potato variety revoked
Judgement against Pepsico potato variety sets precedent for all seed and food and beverages corporations not to transgress farmers’ seed …
What Bhutan got right about happiness, and what other countries can learn
Bhutan has recorded an average growth in annual GDP of 7.5% since the early 1980s; poverty levels have declined from 36% in 2007 to 10% in 2019
DTE tracks trafficking: Droughts, migrating parents leave Marathwada girls vulnerable
Sugarcane cutters’ children at high risk, targeted through proxy marriages
Three things scientists don’t know about women farmers and climate change but really should
Ensuring climate solutions work for both women & men farmers should be high priority at Bonn Climate Change Conference
Amid cold, heat, suicides, January 26, COVID-19, farmer protests complete 6 months
The farmers protesting on Delhi’s borders observed May 26 as a ‘Black Day’ and vowed to continue the protests
