agriculture

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India’s Palm Oil Drive Faces A Reality Check

Palm oil has become essential to India’s food security in the past three decades, replacing other edible oils such as…

2 years ago
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If We Are Smart About Water, We Can Stop Our Cities Sinking

When you come into land at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport, it may not be obvious from the sky that…

2 years ago
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As Earth Warms, More ‘Flash Droughts’ Suck Soil, Plants Dry

(Source: AP) Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers…

3 years ago
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Insects Are Vanishing Globally, Making It Harder To Grow Food

Over the past 20 years, a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there…

3 years ago
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Compensation For Crop Loss: Landless, Tenant Farmers Miss Out

Ram Sagar, 64, a farmer who lives in Turkauli village of Sitapur district in Uttar Pradesh, lost three and a…

3 years ago
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Salinity In Sundarbans: People Buying Drinking Water, Leaving Farming

(Source: PTI) Bibhas Mondal, a farmer of West Bengal's Hasnabad gram panchayat, stopped agricultural work two years ago as Cyclone…

3 years ago
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Managing Kitchen Waste Through Urban Farms

As Indian cities expand, concerns about their rising food demand and the accompanying pressure on the agriculture sector cannot be…

3 years ago
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Farmers Say Global Food Security Is At Risk

Organisations representing over 350 million farmers and producers wrote an open letter to world leaders on Monday, warning that global…

3 years ago
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Future Food Depends On The Cutting Edge

This week, Australians across three states are mopping up after widespread flooding inundated vast areas. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has…

3 years ago
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Malnourished, Obese: The Food Future We Face

Families are feeling the pinch of rising food prices. Fresh fruit and vegetables are often no longer affordable. And many…

3 years ago
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Farmers Continue Protests Against Proposed IIT Campus In Goa

Tribal tenant farmers from Goa’s interior Sanguem and Quepem sub districts have been protesting against the proposed Indian Institute of…

3 years ago
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Stubble Burning Is Back, Smothering The North

Even as authorities claim that they are all set to deal with what is now an annual public health crisis,…

3 years ago
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Non-Food Crops Are Eating Up Our Food

It’s sometimes bandied about that enough food is grown globally to feed everyone now and into the future. Undernourishment is…

3 years ago
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Climate Change Drives Down Yields & Nutrition Of Indian Crops

Rashpinder Singh, 36, is a farmer who owns 17 acres (almost seven hectares) of land in the state of Punjab.…

3 years ago
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‘Why Different Treatment For Farmers & Large Businesses?’

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the BJP-led union government’s policies for farmers of the country, saying while it…

3 years ago
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Farmers Turn To Millets To Fight Water Stress, Climate Change

India is facing a water and food crisis, exacerbated by extreme climate cycles such as the current heatwave, during which…

3 years ago
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Oil Palm Pioneers Doubt Crop Will Take Off In Himalayan Foothills

As he talks about his 200-hectare oil palm plantation, Dature Miuli becomes visibly emotional. A passionate farmer and agro-entrepreneur in…

3 years ago
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Now, Farming Costlier Due To High Fuel Prices, Labour Rates

The hike in fuel prices and labour costs have made farming a costly affair, farmers in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad claim. Under…

4 years ago
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Fears For Farming As Groundwater Plummets In Northern India

At the recent polls in Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh, free electricity for groundwater irrigation was a major promise of…

4 years ago
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Interview: What Next For India’s Farmers?

For more than a year, India’s farmers came together in the largest protests in world history. Demonstrations started in earnest…

4 years ago
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Parliament Passes Bill To Repeal Controversial Farm Laws

India's parliament on Monday passed a bill to repeal three laws aiming at deregulating agricultural markets, bowing to pressure from…

4 years ago
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‘Repeal Farm Laws By Nov 26 Or Farmers Will Intensify Protest’

Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on November 1 said the Centre has time till November 26 to repeal…

4 years ago
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Combatting Soil Erosion Enriches Farmers In Meghalaya

The state of Meghalaya, in northeast India, has an acute soil erosion problem. One of the rainiest places on Earth,…

4 years ago
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On Malik’s Offer To Mediate, Farmer Leaders Say This

With Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik offering to mediate between the agitating farmers and the Centre, farmer leaders said on…

4 years ago
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Plea In SC To Permit Farmers’ Body To Stage ‘Satyagrah’

A farmers’ body, which is protesting against the three farm laws passed last year, has approached the Supreme Court seeking…

4 years ago

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