Sikhs of Lakhimpur-Kheri: How India has to discover itself everyday because of its education system

The elevation of Charanjit Channi to chief ministership and the tragic deaths of Sikh farmers in Lakhimpur-Kheri show us just what exactly is …

Contentious farm laws: What the Bihar experience shows

Fourteen years of agri reforms in Bihar certainly did not turn it into an agri hotspot of India, a careful analysis shows 

Poplars spark farmers' fury against Wimco

Area farmers in Uttar Pradesh contend match manufacturer Wimco, which had persuaded them to raise poplar trees for its factory, has reneged on …

Farmers give silver lining to famine clouds

A country where millions have died of starvation can now hope to achieve self-sufficiency in food, with the UN predicting record harvests of …

Maharashtra sugarcane farmers taught green skills

The Mukti Sangharsh Movement is teaching farmers in Maharashtra's sugar belt scientific methods of moving from single-crop, fertiliser-intensive …

Corporate farming

Pakistan's proposal to allow multinationals into its agriculture sector may be bad news for the environment

Carrots keep weeds at bay

They grow fast and their foliage blocks sunlight to weeds, farmers in Maharashtra have found  

"Right should belong to scientists"

For the first time in India, the draft of the Plant Varieties Protection (PVP) Act is being finalised by the ministry of agriculture. India, as a …

Simply Put: Walking in the rain

Simply Put: The farmer’s tractor

Simply Put: Santa and the Grinch

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Rebranding: an exercise in futility

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Rethink the way we grow food

The world has enough food to feed people; the problem is that much of this food is going into feeding livestock or just to waste. This is what …

More forest cover

Nio wrecks the US

Reclaiming retail democracy

COVID 19: Punjab’s rural economy takes a big hit

Small farmers, labourers among the worst-hit; wheat harvest under cloud

How the Bill took shape

Pesticide scavenger

Modified enzyme neutralises ill-effects of toxic chemicals

The monkey-catcher

Monkeys exact revenge on a naturalist

With help from worms

Shekhawati farmers in Rajasthan go organic

Scent of good business

Herbs spell commercial success for villages in Jowahar Valley

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