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The wild fluctuations in onion prices is a pointer to everything that’s wrong about India’s agriculture economy.
Nearly 40% of India’s entire geographical area and more than 80% of its water are used up by agriculture.
Sahyadri Farms is a unique company that is owned, managed and run by a large collective of small farmers. Its export-oriented success has made farmers prosperous. Some are even millionaires.
‘COVID 19 was a pandemic where nobody died of starvation in India. That was a remarkable achievement. That’s the real success of Green Revolution.’
India is the world’s largest producer and consumer of bananas
The mango is rightly considered the ‘King of Fruits’ in India.
As temperatures soar, milk, poultry and vegetable production gets impacted. This season’s wheat quantity and quality may also come down.
‘While promoting rainfed and sustainable agriculture, lessons from the Green Revolution have to be kept in mind and rigorously followed’
India produces way more sugar than it needs and eats more sugar than is healthy.
Indian government is making all the right noises about adopting millets. In the International Year of Millets, we look India’s challenges and policies needed to make this transition.
India produces 80% of all turmeric grown in the world.
The government starts to panic when there is a slight increase onion prices, egged on by sensationalist media that plays up the “plight of housewives”.
India is the world’s Coconut Central. In 2022, it produced nearly 20 billion nuts or roughly a third of the world’s coconuts.
The 220 million tonnes of milk it produced in 2022 is about 24% of the global output.
The story of India’s journey from below-subsistence level dairy farming to becoming the world’s largest milk producer.
The answers from Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, two of the most important scientists of the 20th century, would have been very different, says their biographer Charles Mann.
Populist, consumer-focussed subsidies are making several state milk cooperatives unhealthy. A cash-rich Amul could certainly benefit.
An ex-Microsoft executive has found a way to get healthy jackfruit into everyday Indian diet inspired by former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam’s one-line brief to him.
India’s wild tomato or onion price fluctuations make farmers and consumers cry every year. Solutions needn’t involve rocket science.
Nearly 75% of Indian farmers own less than two acres of land. Farmer producer companies owned and managed by small farmers offer a way out of chronic distress.
Making Indian farmers richer and agriculture ecologically sustainable is at the heart of organic dairy brand Akshayakalpa’s business
Delivering delicate plums from the orchards of Himachal to consumers in southern India is a race against time.
Ranebennur, a nondescript town 300km north of Bengaluru, is the most important hub of hybrid vegetable seed production in India.
MS Swaminathan who helped India fight hunger and revitalize its agriculture is arguably the greatest Indian post-Independence
Rajeev Varshney, a globally renowned Indian agri scientist, writes a personal tribute to his hero and mentor Dr MS Swaminathan
Bavithra Jagatheshkumar, the CEO of a farmer producer company in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district, is helping farmers turn profitable in the face of massive challenges.
Agripreneurs Pallavi and Sanjay Vyas are betting big on moringa or drumstick as a health and nutrition supplement.
Puliyangudi, a town in southern Tamil Nadu, produces the sourest of limes highly valued by food processors.
Globally, jackfruit is a superfood, and a hot new vegan substitute for meat. India, the home of jackfruit and its largest producer should look to profit from the trend.
Nutmeg farmers in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, are profiting from the power of collectivization.
With hyperspectral images of farm captured from drones, BharatRohan, an agritech startup, is helping farmers diagnose and treat diseases and pest attacks early.
The wild fluctuations in onion prices is a pointer to everything that's wrong about India’s agriculture
Sahyadri Farms is a unique company that is owned, managed and run by a large collective of small farmers. Its export-oriented success has made
India produces way more sugar than it needs and eats more sugar than is
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