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All gain, no pain with stingless bees in greenhouse farming

Arathi Menon 6 Jun 2025

India releases genome-edited rice, draws both applause and alarm

Arathi Menon 2 Jun 2025
Kanhai Prasad, a farmer in Charai village, secures a mesh netting to protect his crops. "All night you can hear tractors roaring from the forest edge, blasting loud music and crushing stone,” he said. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla/Mongabay.

Stone crushers drive nilgai into fields, damaging crops

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 29 May 2025
Experts say that the government must adopt policies to encourage more sustainable practices. Farmers can help restore the water table through ecological farming practices. Policies could also establish clear extraction limits. Image by Lakshmikantha N.R.

Scientists raise alarm as rural water supply goes from depths to debt

Arathi Menon 27 May 2025
Sunil Mahadeorao Bhadke, who uses both rainfed and flood irrigation on his 12-acre cotton farm in Akhatwada village in Amravati district, Maharashtra, has noticed the well water reducing. Image by Vandana K.

India’s cotton exports could threaten Maharashtra’s groundwater

Vandana K. 22 May 2025

Farmers demand separate minimum support price for natural farming products

Vishal Kumar Jain 21 May 2025
A Border Security Force outpost sign at the India-Pakistan border in Burj, Amritsar, Punjab. Image by Nabarun Guha.

Border village farmers navigate conflict and survival

Nabarun Guha 9 May 2025
Farmers at work in a field in Kripekapura village, Bhind district, Madhya Pradesh. Image by Narwariya via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 4.0).

Interstate farmer migration is reshaping agriculture, deepening environmental concerns [Commentary]

Mohanasundari Thangavel and Gaurav Banaula 30 Apr 2025
The Euryale ferox plant photographed in Samastipur, Bihar. It is a type of water lily that grows in stagnant ponds and wetlands, whose edible seeds are referred to as makhana. While it is primarily cultivated in Bihar, it is also found in parts of East Asia. Image by Ramanesh Thakur.

A billion-dollar market rooted in muddy ponds and manual labour

Aditya Ansh 22 Apr 2025
Tea gardens in Ooty, The Nilgiris, below which land is being prepared for growing vegetables. Silver oak trees provide the filtered shade that is perfect for tea. UPASI is currently exploring the possibility of growing fruit trees that can provide similar shade. Representative image by Timothy A. Gonsalves via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Intercropping as an ecological solution to tea demand drop

Arathi Menon 22 Apr 2025

Farming families in India’s largest state are being pushed into debt, distress and migration

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 17 Apr 2025
Seeds of native trees being collected in a coffee agroforest. Image by Vijay Kumar.

Coffee agrofarms can play a key role in restoring degraded forest, study says

Simrin Sirur 17 Apr 2025

An arid Indian state’s water gains risk drying up under cash crop pressures

Anupama Chandrasekaran 9 Apr 2025
Devsi Parmar (right) in a castor field with another farmer in Adesar, Kachchh. Image courtesy of Devsi Parmar.

As castor fields expand, a traditional mixed farming system shrinks

Azera Parveen Rahman 7 Apr 2025
Sorghum crops being grown in Chinawal village, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra. Image by Abhijeet via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

The hidden side of millet farming

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 26 Mar 2025

How shifting weather patterns threaten a sweet legacy

Rushikesh More and Apsara Aga 18 Mar 2025
A nilgai spotted in a forest in Gaidahawa, Nepal. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

Farmers see red as blue bulls raid their fields

Mukesh Pokhrel 12 Mar 2025
A finger millet farm in Telangana. Image by Kavali Chandrakanth KCK via Wikimedia Commons.

More climate literacy and diversification could help tribal millet farmers adapt to impacts

Simrin Sirur 26 Feb 2025
Saplings of Semialta

The Semialata plant is a game changer for lac farming in Jharkhand amid climate and migration challenges

Vineeta Parmar 24 Feb 2025
adiya women paddy edible greens

Reviving forgotten wild edibles from paddy fields

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 7 Feb 2025