SOUTH ASIA

"Subsidy culture has killed local agriculture"

Thupstan Chhewang, Chief Executive Councillor and chairperson of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) speaks to Down To Earth.

Ladakh on the move

Ladakh is the one region in India where sustainable development is the only way ahead. Dry toilets, water efficient crops, cooperative farming, a …

A home-grown drought

Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Ravleen Kaur reports how our food …

NSO survey: Most farmers selling in local markets, government agencies procure the least

Farmers in general satisfied with return from local sale, but a significant percentage of them get lower than market price

Field day

India's soils are in a bad shape. T V Jayan investigates

Drought in Ukraine affects grain exports

Depleting food grain stock ring alarms: Is India staring at a rice crisis?

Over 44 million tonnes of grains in stock compared to 78.6 million tonnes last year; Wheat dangerously close to buffer limit

Microbes to fight oil spillage in oceans: Indian scientists devise new technology

The study found degradation of crude oil was achievable using low-cost non-toxic agro-residues

Conventional solutions to check air pollution in Asia-Pacific insufficient: UN

Instead critical measures should include –agricultural residue management, ban on open burning of household waste, improve efficiency in …

Flour fortification important for Indonesia, says UNICEF

The many ways of GM contamination

Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist in the food and environment programme at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), is among the most …

MSP on crops has major impact on inflation: RBI

After government said that it will provide 1.5 times the MSP on cost of production of crops in the 2018-19 Union budget, RBI re-assessed the …

Scientists identify genes that can increase drought resistance in plants

African ‘orphan’ crop varieties to help plants battle high temperatures  

Centre may reduce moisture content limit for wheat, paddy. Why this will hurt farmers

The government is trying to gradually withdraw from procurement operations, MSP regime with this move, feel farmers

Disease threatens wheat crops across the world

Locust outbreak in Afghanistan

Punjab's paddy dilemma

In 2009, Punjab became the first state in the country to enact a law banning the sowing of rice before a stipulated date. The aim was to arrest …

Global food crisis: causes and implications for India

Is there a global crisis unravelling? World food reserves are at their lowest in 25 years and the prices of most food crops are at a record high. …

CSE experts explain: Strategies to reduce crop residue burning for air pollution mitigation

Farm residue burning is a serious seasonal problem with severe public health consequences

Ground report from Delhi’s wholesale markets: Why vegetable sales have dropped in India this summer

Low supply, soaring prices of staple grains and cooking fuel, heat wave behind low uptake, say experts

Procurement prices low in Maharashtra since 1996; farmers bear the brunt

Low minimum support price has led to severe agrarian crisis in Maharashtra

Reduce pasta prices, say Italians

Uzbek farmers face criminal charges for not growing cotton, wheat

Rabi crop acreage witnesses a decline, pulses fare the worst

Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat among states affected; change in rainfall pattern likely reason