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APEDA has engaged Icrier and Crisil to draft a new playbook to target export of high potential products to new markets, as ...
Farming in India can easily become a debt trap, with tragedy touching many towns across the country. Sher Singh, a cultivator in Punjab, committed suicide in 2015, leaving behind a debt of some ...
The Indian government has launched the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana, a ₹24,000 crore initiative aimed at ...
Decades after Indian farmers were pressured to abandon their traditional methods for chemicals and high-yield crops, the country's farming system is headed for disaster. One official says if it ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Images of thousands of farmers streaming into India's capital on tractors and carrying banners to decry potentially devastating changes in agricultural policy can seem a ...
A spokesman for the agriculture ministry did not respond to a request for comment. About two-thirds of India’s 1.3 billion population relies on farming for a living, but a majority are small and ...
M.S. Swaminathan, a renowned agricultural scientist who revolutionized India’s farming and was a key architect of its 'Green Revolution,' dies at 98.
Organic farming in India is not just restricted to a few certified organic farmers. Many Indian farmers are practising organic methods and, with government efforts, they can now get certification ...
The images are reminiscent of America's farming crisis in the late 1970s when tractors were parked on the National Mall.