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...
agriculture
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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,...
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...
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...
