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A farmer shows his soybean crops damaged by the heavy rains. About 1.75 million (17.5 lakh) hectares of farmland across Sambhajinagar, Jalna, Beed, Latur, Parbhani, Dharashiv and Hingoli districts, has been damaged, according to the government data. Image by Yash Pawar.

Intense rains inundate farms in region known for droughts

Suraj Patke 2 Oct 2025

Pastoral grief in the high Himalayan rangelands [Commentary]

Pema Yangden Lepcha 24 Sep 2025
A woman shows lemons growing oin her homestead garden in a tribal settlement in Cheeyampam. Image by Vipindas P.

How lemons have helped reclaim nutrition and support livelihoods [Commentary]

Vipindas P. 22 Sep 2025
A view of paddy fields during harvest in Srinagar. Image by Bilal Bahadur.

Erratic weather, overgrazing and land use change deepen fodder shortage

Hirra Azmat 18 Aug 2025
A farmer shows a sample of his Khapli harvest. Image by special arrangement.

An old grain for bold gain

Hiren Kumar Bose 24 Jul 2025
Ram Nivas, Rekha and another farmer sort green beans in Samaspur village. Image by Rishabh Ojha.

Weather forecasting improves but access remains uneven for farmers

Rituparna Palit 27 Jun 2025
About 50 villages and hamlets along the Jodhpur-Barmer highway have been suffering from the side effects of the pollutants of the Jojari river since 2007. Image by Nirmal Verma/Mongabay.

Toxic water flows, forcing out people and biodiversity

Vishal Kumar Jain 26 Jun 2025
Solar water pumps in Nepal. Representative image by Prabuddha Raj via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Running on sunshine but running out of water

Hanan Zaffar, Jyoti Thakur 19 Jun 2025
Women at work in a flower farm in Dodballapur, Karnataka. Image by Suneal patel via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Farms turn femme but women still plough through power centres

Arathi Menon 17 Jun 2025

Churpi from mithun milk could boost farmer incomes

Kasturi Das 13 Jun 2025

All gain, no pain with stingless bees in greenhouse farming

Arathi Menon 6 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

Farmers demand separate minimum support price for natural farming products

Vishal Kumar Jain 21 May 2025
A fruit stall selling a variety of mangoes. Higher temperatures during fruiting season can not only affect colour and texture, but even shrink mangoes. Farmers say customers refuse to pay the same price for smaller, defective fruits, resulting in a loss for sellers and farmers. Representative image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Heatwaves, extreme temperatures threaten the king of mangoes

Lisann Dias 20 May 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
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
rice farmer paddy fields

Carbon farming projects not always inclusive and equitable, says new study

Simrin Sirur 23 Jan 2025
Cacao beans drying at Grandpa's Farm, Karnataka Image by Naveenakrishna Shastry.

Indian farmers choose cocoa amid global shortage

Rashi Goel 1 Oct 2024