INEVITABLE TRAGEDY

SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers' suicide lies one decade of …

Farmers in tech trap

Cotton cultivators are on a seed and pesticide treadmill that is draining them of traditional skills  

Organic thread

Even as Bt cotton invaded Indian fields in the past few years, some farmer groups kept pushing for organic cotton. In 2009-10, production in …

Rise And Rise Of MFIs

Microfinance institutions entered big lending five years ago and registered 83 per cent growth

A debt-ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers

Mourn

But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge

Village Punukula's different

Managing yields without pesticides

Out on their own

Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers

No pesticides no debts

Killer heat wave engulfs Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

Local media reports say that, in all, more than 300 people have died due to the weather in both states

Seed congress surreptitiously endorses transgenic varieties

did the World Seed Congress-2003 -- held under a cloak of secrecy in Bangalore from June 7 to 11 -- have a hidden agenda? It transpires that the …

Deadly solutions

To die, Warangal farmers have to no longer consume pesticides. A mere exposure is enough to kill them

Idea of farmer wisdom is relentlessly manipulated

As a visiting American academic, Glenn Davis Stone has put in over 60 weeks of field research on the impact of Bt cotton on farmers in Andhra …

Profit from the poor

Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …