Manwati, 38, has been trying her luck with the hand-pump for close to two hours now. The effort has yielded half-a-bucket of water. Exhausted, she...

Kalaswamy, 35, a marginal farmer from Antharasan village of Mysuru, is dialing Varun Mitra, a government call centre helpline which issues weather...

Any fluctuation in the price and availability of pulses becomes a political hot potato in India for the simple reason that the country is the largest...

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the world’s first and largest social programme of its kind, has brought with...

As world leaders congregated at Paris on November 30 to look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change, an unusually strong northeast monsoon...

Look here, the red pest you see is Chrysopa,” says an excited Manisha, while navigating through her cotton field in Haryana’s Nidana village. “A...

This time in Bihar Assembly elections, women voters outnumbered their male counterparts. If one goes by trends, the number of women casting vote has...

Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of India, is fast turning into an organic farming hub. The bustling city is home to India’s biggest organic restaurant,...

Ashok Kumar Shukla is a worried man these days. A farmer of <g data-gr-id="83">Thithoura</g> village in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district,...

Rani Devi, 47, is drying chickpea (<g data-gr-id="137">chanaa</g> daal) in <g data-gr-id="138">Kuite</g> Khera village of...

After the Centre’s ambitious target of constructing one toilet per second to spruce up rural development, more such records are in the pipeline. Now,...

The unseasonal heavy rains and hailstorm of March and April this year, which left millions of farmers in north India in severe distress, may impact...