Category Archives: Agriculture
Fertilizer cargoes in focus as Iran tightens Strait transit rules
For India, which has focused its attention on the evacuation of fertilizer-carrying bulk carriers from [...]
Jul
Biochar offers a way to turn India’s farm smoke into ‘black gold’
India’s agriculture faces a serious paradox: a large amount of biomass that could improve soil [...]
Jul
Say hello to Libex, a bold new coffee hybrid built to beat the heat
While the world’s coffee drinkers favour Arabica or Robusta, a newly identified hybrid called Coffea [...]
Jul
Razor’s edge: On the progress of the southwest monsoon
The southwest monsoon deficit nationwide has increased from 35% to 43%; the winds’ northward advance [...]
Jul
Kingmakers: Meet the insects that make India’s famed mangoes
More than a thousand varieties of mangoes exist in India, the popular ones being Banganapalli, [...]
Jul
6,669 farmers, agricultural labourers ended their lives in Maharashtra in 2023:
As many as 6,669 farmers and agricultural labourers ended their lives in Maharashtra in 2023, [...]
Jul
Rise in shrimp feed prices leaves aqua farmers in deep waters in Andhra Pradesh
It is 4.30 a.m. and long before the dawn broke, John Raju, an aqua farmer [...]
Jul