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Apr 10, 2019
Travels through the Hindi belt: In dry Ramda village of UP's Kairana, Mallah community has little choice but to migrate
The current trend of migration in Mallah community is depriving the next generation of schooling as well. -
Mar 25, 2019
Drought in Rajasthan: From unemployment to school dropouts, Barmer sees exodus for works as crops fail
Barmer is reeling under what is claimed to be the severest drought of the decade as rains have evaded the district for the fifth consecutive year. -
Jan 04, 2019
Firstpost writer Parth MN's award-winning Marathwada series: How income uncertainty, collapse of rural banking set farmers on edge
Here is a selection of this award-winning Marathwada series. -
Dec 18, 2018
Global warming likely to reduce crop production by over 15% in 2020; govt report warns of highest losses in UP, Rajasthan, Bengal
The impact of global warming will also affect the quality reducing the concentration of grain protein. The heavy rainfall due to climate stress will affect the production of tomato and onion and production of the latter may go down by 27 percent in 2020. -
Nov 30, 2018
Assam students set up seed bank to help rice farmers preserve indigenous varieties
Local strains have many advantages over high-yielding rice strains & should be preserved: Researcher. -
Nov 18, 2018
Sugarcane emerges as likely culprit in drought-hit Marathwada; growing cultivation of cash crop depleted groundwater
Sugarcane requires 2,500mm of water and rainfall in Marathwada is between 500-700mm. The remaining 80 percent of water has been pumped out of groundwater for years now, causing a depletion of groundwater level so much that there is no water left to pump out, say experts -
Nov 17, 2018
In Maharashtra's Ambap village, a couple with polio defied odds to set up a model farm
Geetanjali and Shivaji were affected by polio, a disability that subjected them to terrible name-calling. -
Oct 31, 2018
Startups to focus on coconut farming in first edition of Marico Innovation Foundation program
The winning startups will have access to coconut farms for product testing, adoption and scaling. -
Oct 23, 2018
A symbiotic partnership between plant and fungus could offer a farming fix in space
With plant hormone strigolactone, scientists grew a petunia-fungi network in simulated microgravity. -
Oct 18, 2018
GM cotton now a possible food source for humans after winning FDA approval
Cottonseed is otherwise unfit for people to consume since it has high levels of a toxic chemical.
