Farming

International Women's Day: A holistic approach to empower female farmers of India is a need of the hour

Empowering women in agriculture will have a lasting impact on the vitality of rural India

North Korea's Kim Jong Un holds rare meeting on farming amid food shortage

Recent unconfirmed reports have said an unknown number of North Koreans have died of hunger. But observers have seen no indication of mass deaths or famine in North Korea

Karnataka: Govt exempts use of agricultural land for poultry farming

Section 95(2) of the Land Revenue Act, 1964 relating to the use of agricultural land for other purposes has allowed the farmer to apply to the District Collector for permission to convert the agricultural land or a part of it for any other purpose

Coronavirus Outbreak: With a stressed Rabi season, it's imperative to ensure speedy delivery of Zaid, Kharif seeds to farmers

Agriculture is the backbone of our survival and most of our agriculture today depends on quality seeds and the organised seed sector.

'Sabka Prayaas' is base for India's development, says PM Modi on natural farming

Modi said India has been an agriculture-based country by nature and culture. And the natural farming model that will emerge out of Surat can become a model for the entire India

Akal Farms: Welcome to this ‘mini-Punjab’ in Tamil Nadu

Hard-working farmers from Punjab have turned a ‘deserted or abandoned’ arid farm land into an oasis of lush green orchards in drought-prone Ramanathapuram in southern Tamil Nadu

Third of global tree species threatened with extinction due to farming, logging

Forest ecosystems can collapse when they are subjected to multiple stressors -- like fire, logging and the break up of habitat -- that have the potential to interact and "drive abrupt ecological change."

Opinion | Middlemen in farmers’ clothing have taken Punjab hostage, rendered golden state fallow

Make no mistake, these middlemen are not farmers, nor are they friends of Punjab’s farmers

How DBT prevented arhatiyas from economically exploiting farmers and streamlined procurement of produce

The intention behind direct payments to farmers is not to bypass Arhatiyas but to improve transparency in the process and provide best options to the farmers for their economic freedom.

To reach net-zero emissions and remove CO2 from the air, scientists drawn up six priorities

Information on CO₂ removal is found in academic literature and focuses on a global scale but actually doing it will involve everyone from local farmers to international financiers.