Agroforestry Comes to the Rescue of a Pandemic-hit Tribal Community in Assam
In 2020, as young people returned home to their rural communities displaced from their jobs in the…
Even Palm Oil Has Risen by Half to Rs 133 a Kg; Why are Cooking Oil Prices So High?
The rise in cooking oil prices has jolted the government. The Department of Food and Public…
Crop Care Federation Issues Ad Charging MNCs With Sitting on Ag Chem Patents to Choke Competition
Crop Care Federation of India is at it again. After taking on anti-GM activists in a full-page…
Yuan Longping, Father of Hybrid Rice, Dies; Mourners Throng to Pay Tributes
Mourners at the Mingyangshan Funeral Home in Changsha. Photo Courtesy of Global Times.
Yuan Longping…
How DAP is Subsidised and Priced?
DAP or di-ammonium phosphate is the second most used fertiliser in India. In 2020-21, 11.91 million…
Pune-based Farm ERP Firm Ties Up With State Bank of India For an App to Enable Smallholder Farmers Keep Tab on Cost and Profit
It is said that if you can measure it you can manage it. Most farmers are unable to manage cost of…
Sri Lanka Bans Chemical Fertilisers; Could Become World's first Organic-only State
Sri Lanka has banned the import of chemical fertilisers and agrochemicals at a decision its cabinet…
Poly House Cultivation is Not Profitable without Subsidy, HP University Researchers Find
Is protected cultivation in poly houses profitable? Indervir Singh, Faculty Member of the Central…
Bihar's Maize is Bought by Private Traders; Can its Rice Farmers Do Without Regulated Mandis and Procurement?
Speaking to Harish Damodaran of the Indian Express on 26 April, Balram Singh Yadav, Managing…
Shetkari Sanghatana President Writes to SEBI Chairman Asking Him Not to Give in to Traders' Lobby and Ban Futures Trading in Soybean
This is an email which the Shetkari Sanghatana, a union of farmers based in Maharashtra, sent…