Agriculture

Bhimashankar Villagers Multiply Indigenous Seeds

Varsha Torgalkar 30/12/2018

A school in Pune has got a rural community...

Tamil Nadu Farmers Innovate to Overcome Fodder Shortage

Catherine Gilon 27/12/2018

They are reinventing the way their cattle are fed...

Cyclone Gaja, Cauvery delta, paddy crop, rice cultivation, cottage industries, kuruvai, Cauvery river, Cauvery dispute, coconut groves, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Chennai, Cuddalore, Chidambaram, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Chola Empire, Harichandra river, farmer suicides, farmers march, Tamil Nadu

Cyclone Gaja Was a National Disaster – Don’t Let State Apathy Suggest Otherwise

Poonkuzhali and Kavin Malar 15/12/2018

If Gaja is treated – and dismissed – as...

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Assam’s Rabha Tribe is Fighting to Save Its Land and Identity

Rupa Chinai 10/12/2018

The BJP-led state government’s move to incorporate the Rabha...

All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee members and farmers at the rally at Ramlila Maidan on November 29, 2018. Credit: PTI/Ravi Choudhary

Kisan Movement: The Necessity of Making Climate Change a Political Issue

N. Sai Balaji 01/12/2018

The moment for revisiting the grammar of the farmer's...

torrefied pellets, biochar, gasification, syngas, Happy Seeders, Punjab farmers, air pollution, cold storages, rice wheat crop cycle, plasma gasification, aviation transport fuel, municipal solid waste, briquette, NTPC Dadri, coking coal, rural employment, Jhajjar,

The Smog That Hides a Bonanza

Sunil Dhingra and Prem Shankar Jha 29/11/2018

Biochar holds the key not only to reducing air...

agricultural distress, Azad Maidan, Bundelkhand, climate change, drought, farmer suicide, farmer’s march, global warming, Indian monsoon, Indian Ocean, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Kharif crop, livestock, melting glaciers, northeast monsoon, ocean warming, rabi crop, rising sea level, southwest monsoon, Sunderbans, wheat cultivation,

As Farmers March to Delhi, Climate Change Fuels Their Larger Crisis

Nagraj Adve 28/11/2018

Perhaps we can visualise a farmers’ march 20 years...