Topic

Agriculture

223 articles · 2003–2022

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  1. Re-seeding the past, for better yields and livelihoods

    Report · Adivasis · Agriculture · Odisha · 17 June 2022

  2. Has precision farming's moment arrived?

    Report · Agriculture · Land · 6 June 2022

  3. In Kamrup, orange growers face an uncertain future

    Report · Agriculture · Horticulture · Assam · 21 March 2022

  4. What drives media reporting?

    Report · Agriculture · Land · 16 February 2022

  5. Reviving cultivation and consumption of millets

    Report · Agriculture · Food Security · Odisha · 14 February 2022

  6. Uttam Gram: An experiment in integrated development

    Report · Agriculture · Livestock · Haryana · 27 January 2022

  7. Farmers sell at low prices as MSP remains elusive

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · Assam · 20 December 2021

  8. From flavorful tea to perfume trees

    Report · Agriculture · Biodiversity · Assam · 6 December 2021

  9. On farms, it's all work and no land for women

    Report · Agriculture · Women · 16 November 2021

  10. Erosion-hit Assam farmers turn to horticulture

    Report · Agriculture · Climate · Assam · 11 October 2021

  11. River erosions batter the landless in Assam

    Report · Agriculture · Climate · Assam · 24 September 2021

  12. Lockdown, cyclones and maize farming in Odisha

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · Odisha · 21 July 2021

  13. Falling prices hit turmeric farmers hard

    Report · Adivasis · Agriculture · Odisha · 8 June 2021

  14. Women in farming: Everywhere, but unseen

    Report · Agriculture · Gender and Media · 4 January 2021

  15. From mandis to markets : Will this round be any better?

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · 29 September 2018

  16. Why doesn't the CAG look at its own past work?

    Report · Agriculture · Public Funds · 23 August 2018

  17. The missing ‘market’ for agriculture

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · 24 June 2018

  18. Registration of informal land sales

    Report · Agriculture · Land · Telangana · 7 August 2016

  19. What's working, what's not

    Report · Agriculture · Labour Issues · 27 July 2016

  20. Withering public consultations

    Report · Agriculture · Biodiversity · 8 June 2016

  21. Extraction exceeds recharge

    Report · Agriculture · Water · 19 May 2016

  22. Rays of hope for the ‘local’ in Meghalaya

    Report · Adivasis · Agriculture · 19 March 2016

  23. How sustainable are the SDGs?

    Report · Agriculture · Environment · 9 December 2015

  24. Wadi: A model for sustainable tribal livelihood

    Report · Adivasis · Agriculture · Odisha · 14 August 2015

  25. ‘Sarso mein IP ka tadka’ leaves local farmers in the dock

    Opinion · Agriculture · GM Crops · 29 June 2015

  26. Reversing fate through love for land, forests and water

    Report · Adivasis · Agriculture · Odisha · 3 June 2015

  27. Kerala pioneer eyes new horizons for jackfruit industry

    Report · Agriculture · Economy · Kerala · 25 May 2015

  28. The real challenges to sustainable development

    Report · Agriculture · Climate · 22 May 2015

  29. Making power supply data a tool for progress

    Report · Agriculture · Energy · 6 May 2015

  30. Skills-building an imperative for rural India too and here’s why!

    Report · Agriculture · Economy · 1 May 2015

  31. Why relief packages and loan waivers won’t be enough to stem farm suicides

    Report · Agriculture · 13 April 2015

  32. Pay up, or give up your IP!

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 8 April 2015

  33. Why Jaitley’s budget has failed to bring cheer to our farmers

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 28 February 2015

  34. For the love of the seed industry

    Report · Agriculture · Economy · 17 February 2015

  35. Pursuing development: The perils of the beaten track

    Report · Agriculture · Economy · Maharashtra · 27 January 2015

  36. What binds every family in this Kerala Panchayat

    Report · Agriculture · Environment · Kerala · 19 January 2015

  37. Farming for self-reliance in Kalahandi

    Report · Agriculture · Food Security · Odisha · 12 January 2015

  38. Rest in peace, food self-sufficiency

    Report · Agriculture · Food Security · 24 December 2014

  39. Is lower inflation here to stay?

    Report · Agriculture · Economy · 20 November 2014

  40. Workers leave agriculture, but where are they headed?

    Report · Agriculture · Economy · 14 November 2014

  41. Food security, courtesy Odisha's tribal women

    Report · Agriculture · Environment · Odisha · 4 November 2014

  42. Good food from dry land

    Report · Agriculture · Food Security · 19 September 2014

  43. There are more things in heaven and earth than stock markets!

    Opinion · Agriculture · Economy · 4 September 2014

  44. All set to lose out on the gains?

    Report · Agriculture · Government · 11 August 2014

  45. How about smart villages, Mr Modi?

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 16 July 2014

  46. A silent revolution brewing on our farms

    Report · Agriculture · Food Security · 13 June 2014

  47. Can farmers look ahead to “acche din” as well?

    Report · Agriculture · Economy · 28 May 2014

  48. Ash everywhere; in your food and water, too?

    Report · Agriculture · Energy · 14 April 2014

  49. NaMo-RaGa brand war drowns out Assam’s cries

    Report · Agriculture · Elections · Assam · 20 March 2014

  50. Looking beyond the spread on our tables

    Report · Adivasis · Agriculture · 13 March 2014

  51. Seeds of doubt

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 31 January 2014

  52. Lessons from Italy for the Indian farmer

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 30 January 2014

  53. Big hopes from small tea

    Report · Agriculture · Livelihoods · Assam · 27 January 2014

  54. What could make our farmers more prosperous?

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 19 November 2013

  55. A new fast-yielding jackfruit

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 14 November 2013

  56. Farmers take the long-term view, with long stalk rice

    Report · Agriculture · Environment · Kerala · 3 November 2013

  57. The wonder climber for areca nut trees

    Report · Agriculture · Horticulture · 5 September 2013

  58. Humble jackfruit eyes haute cuisine status

    Report · Agriculture · Economy · 23 July 2013

  59. Vegetables in the backyard

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · Karnataka · 26 June 2013

  60. GM Crops: Can India follow the Philippines example?

    Report · Agriculture · Environmental Regulation · 10 June 2013

  61. Living off jackfruit

    Report · Agriculture · Tamil Nadu · 6 May 2013

  62. Caveat from farm debt waiver scheme

    Report · Agriculture · 1 April 2013

  63. Drought in Maharashtra: The real story

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 14 March 2013

  64. Government ignores adverse TEC report

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 26 February 2013

  65. Cauvery: Preferring politics to solutions

    Report · Agriculture · Government · Karnataka · 21 February 2013

  66. Why not fruits and vegetables?

    Report · Agriculture · Horticulture · 24 October 2012

  67. New designs on foreign lands

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · 28 June 2012

  68. Small farms, big worries

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 24 February 2012

  69. Adding millets to the basket

    Report · Agriculture · Food Security · 31 December 2011

  70. Some states fight the trend, but still ...

    Opinion · Agriculture · 8 December 2011

  71. Popularising SRI

    Review · Agriculture · 29 June 2011

  72. Scientists bless betelnut leaves for cattle fodder

    Report · Agriculture · Livestock · Karnataka · 31 March 2011

  73. Lacunae and contradictions

    Opinion · Agriculture · Child labour · 13 February 2011

  74. Scars of the Green Revolution

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · Punjab · 2 February 2011

  75. A failed harvest

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 21 January 2011

  76. In north Karnataka, dried banana bits are a hit

    Report · Agriculture · Horticulture · Karnataka · 22 September 2010

  77. Vidarbha farmers get market-savvy with hi-tech solution

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 15 August 2010

  78. How an ex-lecturer turned around the land

    Report · Agriculture · Water · Karnataka · 31 July 2010

  79. Winning the battle against hunger, silently

    Report · Agriculture · Food Security · 19 April 2010

  80. Yet another pro-farmer budget!

    Opinion · Agriculture · 4 March 2010

  81. Organic veggies in my Inbox

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · 25 February 2010

  82. Farm suicides: A 12-year saga

    Opinion · Agriculture · 3 February 2010

  83. Nearly 2 lakh farm suicides since 1997

    Opinion · Agriculture · 25 January 2010

  84. Watching prices rise, helplessly

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · 20 January 2010

  85. Genetic Modification: Where is the science?

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 6 November 2009

  86. Farmers sour on sugar cane

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · 11 September 2009

  87. ASEAN FTA - a hasty, unbalanced deal

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · Kerala · 15 August 2009

  88. Too risky to tolerate

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 24 July 2009

  89. Nagas revere this bureaucrat from the mainland

    Report · Agriculture · Government · 23 May 2009

  90. Kokkarni, saviour of paddy

    Report · Agriculture · Environment · Kerala · 12 April 2009

  91. The dull days of White Gold

    Opinion · Agriculture · 8 April 2009

  92. "Only the idiots are committing suicide"

    Report · Agriculture · Chhattisgarh · 31 March 2009

  93. Good food, Indian-style

    Report · Agriculture · Health · 19 March 2009

  94. New language, old crisis

    Opinion · Agriculture · 3 March 2009

  95. Over 16,600 farmer suicides in 2007

    Opinion · Agriculture · 21 December 2008

  96. A stimulus package for farmers?

    Opinion · Agriculture · 21 December 2008

  97. Vidarbha meltdown: bumper crop losses

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 14 December 2008

  98. He did not wait for the government’s new sop

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 14 December 2008

  99. Patterns from the past

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · 11 December 2008

  100. Edible oil policy on the boil

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 10 August 2008

  101. Jhum cultivation under conflict in the Northeast

    Report · Agriculture · Assam · 27 June 2008

  102. From market yard to police yard

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 23 June 2008

  103. Too much fruit, too little bounty

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · Tripura · 30 May 2008

  104. From prosperity to a struggle for dignity

    Report · Agriculture · 21 May 2008

  105. Of loan waivers and tax waivers

    Opinion · Agriculture · Public Funds · 20 May 2008

  106. One-man-army greens barren land

    Report · Agriculture · Karnataka · 14 May 2008

  107. 'We cultivate pearls, but our children go hungry'

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 20 April 2008

  108. Between a rock and a hard place

    Opinion · Agriculture · 19 April 2008

  109. Farm policy fails to address key issues

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 15 March 2008

  110. Oh! What a lovely waiver

    Opinion · Agriculture · 11 March 2008

  111. SRI: Small state, big results

    Report · Agriculture · Tripura · 29 January 2008

  112. Soya cultivation rising in crisis-hit Vidarbha

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · Maharashtra · 9 January 2008

  113. SC to look into deregulation of GM food imports

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 26 November 2007

  114. Genetically engineered spin

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · Andhra Pradesh · 18 November 2007

  115. Natural farmers of Punjab

    Report · Agriculture · Punjab · 1 November 2007

  116. Our food, our farmers

    Report · Agriculture · Environment · 8 October 2007

  117. When the one who dies is a woman

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 18 September 2007

  118. Life on credit, death in installments

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 5 September 2007

  119. Empty fields stare at farm widows

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 31 August 2007

  120. Relief cows are milking Vidarbha farmers

    Report · Agriculture · Livestock · Maharashtra · 29 August 2007

  121. GEAC's poor record of regulation

    Opinion · Agriculture · GM Crops · 16 August 2007

  122. Fresh water scarcity demands fresh ideas

    Review · Agriculture · Food Security · 9 August 2007

  123. From APMCs to electronic markets

    Report · Agriculture · 21 July 2007

  124. ASEAN trade agreement will hurt Kerala farmers

    Report · Agriculture · Kerala · 16 July 2007

  125. "I need my land, not money."

    Report · Agriculture · Livelihoods · West Bengal · 11 July 2007

  126. Bt-ing the farmers!

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 2 July 2007

  127. Burning down standing surgarcane crops

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 30 May 2007

  128. Wheat imports: Subverting procurement

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 21 May 2007

  129. Sugar co-ops face a downturn

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 18 April 2007

  130. Fungus threat to Indian wheat advancing

    Report · Agriculture · Food Security · 13 April 2007

  131. Cooking numbers as agri-volcano builds up

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · Maharashtra · 3 April 2007

  132. Burdman's farmers are faring better

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · West Bengal · 14 March 2007

  133. Is Bt-based resistance collapsing?

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 24 February 2007

  134. The tale of three widows

    Report · Agriculture · Women · Maharashtra · 22 February 2007

  135. New terms of harvest

    Report · Agriculture · 20 February 2007

  136. A green foundation for prosperity

    Report · Agriculture · Karnataka · 20 January 2007

  137. Replying with bullets

    Report · Agriculture · Government · Maharashtra · 6 January 2007

  138. Timbaktu Organic is scaling up

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · 28 December 2006

  139. Jhum cultivation under sharper scrutiny

    Report · Agriculture · Assam · 1 December 2006

  140. He grew a forest only to harvest water

    Report · Agriculture · Water · Kerala · 3 November 2006

  141. Engineering crops, distorting trade

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 24 September 2006

  142. When death comes faster than the package

    Report · Agriculture · Relief · Maharashtra · 19 August 2006

  143. Nothing unscientific about it

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · Maharashtra · 12 August 2006

  144. Bt: Flaky results, pre-determined consensus

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 11 August 2006

  145. Persisting on two left feet

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 26 June 2006

  146. Bt cotton farmers are alert this year

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · Karnataka · 20 June 2006

  147. Corporate agriculture: transplanting failure

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 3 May 2006

  148. Biotech Policy: secretive and hasty

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 29 April 2006

  149. Vehicle loan currents in turbulent Vidarbha

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 9 April 2006

  150. Will herders be heard?

    Report · Agriculture · Livestock · 4 April 2006

  151. The flavour of greed

    Report · Agriculture · Kerala · 30 March 2006

  152. Poison reaches them, government does not

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 29 March 2006

  153. Suicide in a distant land

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 12 March 2006

  154. 350, and counting

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 11 March 2006

  155. End of a wedding-dream

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 17 February 2006

  156. Loan after loan

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 18 January 2006

  157. Another farmer ends life, villagers distraught

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 12 December 2005

  158. Make trade fair, say sugarcane farmers

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · Tamil Nadu · 23 November 2005

  159. Vidarbha distress and the end of innocence

    Report · Agriculture · Children · Maharashtra · 17 November 2005

  160. Food sovereignty, not just security

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 31 October 2005

  161. Farmers persist with organic, see results

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · Punjab · 22 October 2005

  162. UN MDGs, hunger, and biodiversity

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 22 September 2005

  163. Drought-proofed by traditional wisdom

    Report · Agriculture · Water · Karnataka · 23 August 2005

  164. This Seeds Bill must go

    Report · Agriculture · 16 August 2005

  165. Poison in their veins

    Report · Agriculture · Environmental Hazards · Punjab · 27 June 2005

  166. Cheques and balances, farmers have none

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 30 May 2005

  167. Was the Bhakra dam worth it?

    Report · Agriculture · Water · Haryana · 21 May 2005

  168. Centre's no to Bt cotton in AP

    Report · Agriculture · Environmental Regulation · Andhra Pradesh · 1 May 2005

  169. An organic cup of tea, please

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · 31 March 2005

  170. Organic farming takes hold in Rajasthan

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · Rajasthan · 21 March 2005

  171. Poll freebies not relieving Vidarbha farmers

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · Maharashtra · 24 January 2005

  172. Cotton marketing fails Vidarbha farmers

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 20 January 2005

  173. Vidarbha 2004: a suicides diary

    Report · Agriculture · Maharashtra · 8 January 2005

  174. Rajasthan's water sharing woes escalate

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · Rajasthan · 3 January 2005

  175. Case for a moratorium on GM crops

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 1 December 2004

  176. Less seed, more harvest

    Report · Agriculture · Tamil Nadu · 1 December 2004

  177. Biotech policy : task force report

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 1 September 2004

  178. Against the grain

    Opinion · Agriculture · 1 August 2004

  179. A revolution long turned brown

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 1 August 2004

  180. Unapproved seeds on the market

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 1 July 2004

  181. Standing apart on common ground

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 1 June 2004

  182. Transitioning to organic

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · 1 June 2004

  183. Once again, fooling the world

    Report · Agribusiness · Agriculture · 1 June 2004

  184. A ray of hope in Nasik

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · Maharashtra · 1 May 2004

  185. Organic: an easier choice

    Report · Agriculture · Organic · 1 April 2004

  186. GM crops and foods: SC notice on PIL

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 1 April 2004

  187. Organic : to combat pesticide residues

    Opinion · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · 1 March 2004

  188. Diverting a river, west to east

    Report · Agriculture · Environment · Karnataka · 1 March 2004

  189. The slow poisoning of Punjab

    Report · Agriculture · Health · Punjab · 1 February 2004

  190. Rice is now Oryza syngenta

    Opinion · Agriculture · GM Crops · 1 February 2004

  191. 35 acres, organic and profitable

    Report · Agriculture · Karnataka · 1 January 2004

  192. This journalism is about growing

    Report · Agriculture · Media · Karnataka · 1 December 2003

  193. GM, agriculture, and food security

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 1 December 2003

  194. Charity in the name of science

    Opinion · Agriculture · Trade · 1 November 2003

  195. Flogging a dead horse

    Opinion · Agriculture · 1 November 2003

  196. Organic : Market-driven and sustainable?

    Report · Agriculture · Agriculture Policy · Kerala · 1 November 2003

  197. Rooted in paddy

    Report · Agriculture · Water · Punjab · 1 November 2003

  198. No children on the farm

    Report · Agriculture · Child labour · Andhra Pradesh · 1 October 2003

  199. Electronic land

    Report · Agriculture · Government · Karnataka · 1 September 2003

  200. The great trade robbery

    Opinion · Agriculture · Trade · 1 September 2003

  201. WTO: End of the road?

    Opinion · Agriculture · Trade · 1 September 2003

  202. Agenda for the South : Cancun

    Report · Agriculture · Trade · 1 August 2003

  203. Potato farming and innovation

    Report · Agriculture · 1 August 2003

  204. Abandoning agriculture

    Opinion · Agriculture · Trade · 1 July 2003

  205. Eliminating hunger or the hungry?

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 1 June 2003

  206. From Pomato to Protato

    Opinion · Agriculture · GM Crops · 1 June 2003

  207. Challenging broad spectrum patents

    Report · Agriculture · Trade · 1 May 2003

  208. Childhood, cropped

    Report · Agriculture · Children · Andhra Pradesh · 1 May 2003

  209. Pests, Pesticides and Modern Science

    Opinion · Agriculture · Tamil Nadu · 1 May 2003

  210. Protecting farmers, freeing the breeders

    Report · Agriculture · Laws · 1 May 2003

  211. SC rules on preventing starvation deaths

    Report · Agriculture · Human Rights · 1 May 2003

  212. The road to starvation

    Report · Agriculture · Rajasthan · 1 April 2003

  213. Legislate, then contradict

    Report · Agriculture · Laws · 1 April 2003

  214. No ordinary farm

    Report · Agriculture · Karnataka · 1 April 2003

  215. Invoice enclosed - please pay immediately

    Report · Agriculture · GM Crops · 13 March 2003

  216. Making agriculture attractive

    Opinion · Agriculture · 1 March 2003

  217. A scientific fairytale

    Opinion · Agriculture · 1 February 2003

  218. Suppressing criticism

    Opinion · Agriculture · 1 February 2003

  219. Zero tolerance for farm subsidies

    Opinion · Agriculture · 1 February 2003

  220. Of cows and men, and grazing lands

    Report · Agriculture · 1 January 2003

  221. Feeding the farmers

    Opinion · Agriculture · 1 January 2003

  222. The GM potato hoax

    Opinion · Agriculture · GM Crops · 1 January 2003

  223. Seeding hopes for food security

    Report · Agriculture · Karnataka · 1 January 2003