With IT villages

Elsewhere the bubble may have burst, but in rural India infotech is alive and kicking

Farming made unprofitable

Persistent in folly

Rice and wheat fetch a secure price and subsidies on farm inputs. Coarse grains have no place in the public distribution system, although their …

Rice: the real cost

It is said the future wars would be fought over the issue of water, not land. Yet Indian government promotes rice, which consumes water, over …

Cereal killer

By promotong rice over coarse grains, the government is promoting food scarcity and defeciency of micronutrients among India's most malnourished …

Salted lands of Australia

Bad cropping practices and ill-planned water management leads to salted Australian farmland

As told to Parliament (July 22, 2022): UP had most number of cancer cases in 2020

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Govt hikes Rabi crops’ MSP minimally

Increase in MSP of wheat is the lowest in the last six years

MS Swaminathan, a legend who will live on

Swaminathan will go down in history as the person who pulled India out of the ‘hunger trap’. This was the biggest achievement of the …

White fly attack, untimely rains and drought; Rajasthan farmers stare at losses

Farmers are now banking on the Rabi crops as they lost hopes of a good income in the Kharif season

FAO acknowledges Indian wheat exports helped in reducing April inflation

There has been some relief in inflation in April according to the Food Price Index of the FAO, released May 6; this relief has been seen in …

What about harvest? Protesting farmers say colleagues back home have them covered

Farmers in Punjab plan to first harvest fields of neighbours who are away at Delhi borders in unprecedented solidarity 

Punjab rejects Centre’s new agri laws, passes 3 bills of its own

They essentially provide that no sale or purchase of wheat and paddy will take place below the minimum support price

Untimely rains wreak havoc on rabi crops in Bihar

Total rainfall recorded in April was 110 mm against the normal of 15-25 mm, according to an official

Stubble burning season starts in Punjab and Haryana

Nasa’s satellite image showed at least 100 such incidents in Punjab in the last 72 hours

More than 60% markets sell agricultural produce below MSP

The price of cereal, paddy and oilseed has crashed in more than 1,700 markets, according to government data

Grain of truth

India's public distribution system promotes rice and wheat. These water-intensive crops require more inputs and are less nutritious as compared …

Weighty task

It is not easy to measure nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, emitted from Indian farms

Centre eases quarantine norms for wheat imports

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Brief

A plant breeder comes into his own

Awards are finally coming to K Vinod Prabhu, 54, a plant breeder, for his work on building resistance in wheat, mustard and rice through the …

Direct cash transfer smooth in Punjab, but is it a hit with farmers

State pays out 83% of wheat MSP due for rabi season in a month

El Niño casts shadow on crop prospects; Food Price Index falls

Reduced crop production has severely affected food security in southern Africa