Food security: India, China want ‘legal certainty’ for permanent solution
India wants ‘legal certainty’ for the mandated permanent solution for public stockholding programmes for food security that needs to be concluded at WTO’s Buenos Aires […]
Agriculture
Protecting rivers that enable farmers to feed us must be India’s priority
By Jaggi Vasudev The projections are that 25% of India’s agricultural land will degrade to desert conditions in the next three to five years. Going by […]
As temperature rises, India’s farm-suicide ‘epidemic’ will worsen: US scientist advises ‘urgent’ action
By Charu Bahri Tamma Carleton, a doctoral student in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California-Berkeley, says without adaptation, India’s suicide epidemic will continue […]
Two-year undercover study reveals cruel side of India’s dairy industries
By Badri Chatterjee Inexperienced men using unsterile equipment to artificially inseminate dairy animals, calves snatched from their mothers days after birth — this is what the […]
Promoting permaculture can put an end to GMO culture in India
By Meenakshisushma Experts at the 13th Permaculture Convergence in Telangana reposed faith in permaculture and urged farmers to explore this as an alternative to chemical-based farming […]
Derecognition notice given to 18 agriculture colleges
By Sujit Mahamulkar MUMBAI: The state agriculture department has decided to shut down 18 agriculture colleges and send de-recognition notices to them. More than half of them […]
Major Stakeholders in Indian Agriculture Market – The Gaps & Possible Framework
By Prabodh Krishna We need intervention that can help in aggregating farmers and their produce, establishing a direct mode of physical and information exchange between buyers […]
India’s Farmers Revive Traditional Grains in Face of Severe Drought
THIRUTHURAIPOONDI, INDIA: For Nel Jayaraman, the realization that hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides were making farmers more vulnerable to extreme weather came slowly. In fields […]
`Bio-fuel would boost agriculture, create jobs, cut pollution’
Pune: Calling bio-CNG, ethanol and methanol cost-effective, pollution-free and import substitute alternatives, Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari said the use of these alternative fuels will […]
Empower The Farmer
By M.S. Swaminathan To solve the agrarian crisis, India needs to look at the human dimension of agriculture and focus on the problems faced by […]