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Damaged fields in Rajasthan. Representative image. (AP Photo/Deepak Sharma)

Early warning must also reach farmers without institutional support [Commentary]

Vandana Choudhary and Milap Punia 9 Nov 2026

A native tarantula as a seasonal food

Sabir Nishat 5 Nov 2026
A flooded field in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. Image by Sameeksha Sharma.

Farmers prepare for low rain but get floods instead

Sameeksha Sharma 27 Oct 2026
A worker carries crates of apples through a high-density orchard in south Kashmir. Image by Faisal Bashir.

As Kashmir turns from paddy to apples, dependence on outside rice grows

Farzana Nisar 13 Oct 2026
A farmer grazer her cattle. Image by Mahesh Maske.

Maharashtra formally recognises women farmers regardless of land ownership [Commentary]

Soumya Swaminathan 1 Oct 2026
Rama Shankar with his family's cattle in Doda Mafi village. Image by Shivam Bhardwaj.

The grass is greener only on paper

Shivam Bhardwaj 4 Sep 2026
A farmer stands on a parched paddy field near Jammu in 2014. Representative image. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

El Niño brings drought declaration into sharper focus

Simrin Sirur 3 Sep 2026
With its embankment breached and the basin choked with silt, Keshav Yadav’s farm pond remains dry, leaving Yadav without any means to irrigate his Rabi crops after erratic rainfall. Image by Shivam Bharadwaj.

When farm ponds fail to hold water

Shivam Bhardwaj 26 Aug 2026
Vinu A. Muthukuzhi, inspects his plantain farm that suffered massive loss in the recent heavy rainfall and flooding in Kalliyoor, Thiruvananthapuram.

Kerala’s Onam festival marred by a weaker monsoon and subsequent crop loss

K. Rajendran 25 Aug 2026
Kafal (Myrica esculenta) is a local seasonal berry found in the mid-Himalayan region. Image by Divya Chowfin.

Better demand could save indigenous fruits from being forgotten

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Aug 2026
Farmers release crabs into a paddy field in Borborua block, Dibrugarh district. Image by Anirban Roy.

Harvesting rice and crabs on one field offers farmers a climate-resilient alternative

Azera Parveen Rahman 18 Aug 2026
A sloth bear in the Aravallis. Image by Utkarsh Prajapati.

Sloth bears are unlikely seed dispersers shaping forests

Sneha Mahale 6 Aug 2026
The devastating impacts of the famine on people in then Bellary district, Madras, illustrated for The Graphic (a British weekly newspaper) published on October 6, 1877. Illustration by Horace Harral courtesy of National Portrait Gallery via Public Domain.

Volcanoes, El Niño and colonial policies fuelled two deadly famines in India

Karthik Vinod 30 Jul 2026
A sugarcane field in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

India’s ethanol push moves from the pump to the field, raising water and food questions

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Jul 2026
Cracks appear in Basant Dangi's field in Pathalgada village, where he normally grows a paddy nursery. Image by Vishal Kumar Jain.

Low rainfall delays paddy farming signalling El Niño-induced drought

Vishal Kumar Jain 27 Jul 2026
A diggi in Jamal. Image by Partik Kumar.

Rethinking irrigation through farm ponds [Commentary]

Partik Kumar, Parul 27 Jul 2026
Dholes feed on a deer in Karnataka. Representative image by T.A. Joseph via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

New DNA analysis reveals what dholes eat

Rajeev Tyagi 24 Jul 2026
A buyer bargains with a sugarcane vendor. Representative image. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Rising sugarcane yields coexist with climate, water risks in semi-arid India

Sneha Mahale 23 Jul 2026
A beekeeper in the Nilgiris harvests honey from her hive. Image by Shawn J. Stephen/Keystone Foundation.

Indigenous women build new livelihoods with hive boxes

Arathi Menon 3 Jul 2026
A farmer cleans maize seeds near a paddy field on the outskirts of Guwahati, Assam. Representative image. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Valuing the diversity that feeds us [Commentary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 12 Jun 2026