Inadequate rainfall adds to misery of farmers in Maharashtrawada

Absence of proper rainfall has risked the farmlands of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra and lack of subsequent effective government intervention is leaving farmers with n...

Stem Ryots' Suicides with Organic Farming

Non-governmental organisation Praphanjam conducted a food festival — Chennai Parampariya Unavu Thiruvizha — recently, hoping to draw attention to organic farmin...

Organic food market takes off

Farmers can achieve better yield, but they are struggling to market organic products owing to lack of government support Organic food market in India is expanding at a stag...

Climate Change Clouds Farmers

Indian farmers are keeping fingers crossed. Will the monsoon this kharif (south-west monsoon season) be normal, above normal (like last year), or sub-normal? One has receiv...

6 years on, Maharashtra has no climate-change action plan

Even as rural areas in otherwise drought-hit regions of Maharashtra (as also in neighbouring areas of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) struggle to cope with imme...

Soil health movement restoring agriculture

Farmers started the soil health movement that Ray Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Greensboro, N.C., sees as the solu...

Can our agriculture tackle climate change?

The latest report of the inter-governmental panel points to the impact of extreme weather events on farming in India

India has long been regarded a ‘climate c...

Food and drink industry backs sustainable farming scheme

Members of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform have developed the world’s first industry aligned Farmer Self Assessment of sustainable agriculture p...

Equality for Women and Sustainable Development Go Hand in Hand

Half of the world’s farmers are women, but women only own about one percent of the world’s land. Similarly, women make up nearly 50 percent of the global fisher...