Soil Health Ensures Healthy Crop Yield & Food Sufficiency
New Delhi: India is endowed with a vast and diverse geographical topography where agriculture is a major source of sustenance for millions. India is endowed […]
Food Security
Agri trade is booming this fiscal, but April-Oct basmati exports fell 23% since last year
APEDA says basmati exports have dipped due to stock pile-up. But a top industry leader says high freight charges and issues over maximum residue levels […]
Tech infusion is key to food security
By G CHANDRASHEKHAR Despite the rapid strides made in food production, we are still just one bad monsoon away from a farm disaster Indian agriculture is […]
Conquering Hunger: The Battle for Right to Food in India
By Annapurna and Navneet Sharma There are so many hungry people. To them God has no other shape than bread.—Mahatma Gandhi India has recently crossed […]
Farm Export Policy Poses Threat to Small farmers, Food Security
By Sumedha Pal To make agriculture export-oriented would mean major compromises to the nation’s food security, which could trigger the beginning of a food crisis in […]
Agriculture R&D spend: A reality check
By BHUWAN BHASKAR To fulfil its objective of doubling farm incomes by 2022, the govt must hike R&D spend and facilitate private investments The Indian economy […]
As India’s Ganges runs out of water, a potential food shortage looms
By Sahana Ghosh In the last three decades, the groundwater input to the Ganges River in India has declined by 50 percent during the summer, a […]
Resolving the farmer-consumer binary
By Ashok Gulati and Carmel Cahill Reforms to domestic market regulations and direct benefit transfers for vulnerable sections of the population could be the win-win solution. New […]
Fertile idea
By Ajeet Kumar Agriculture must be integral to reform and planning in order to make a significant dent in poverty and malnutrition as well as to […]
India needs a systematic overhaul in agriculture to ensure food security
By MALANCHA CHAKRABARTY Indian agriculture cannot afford to rely on unsustainable ways. Sustainable agriculture, which applies less pressure on natural resources, is the need of the […]