In Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, farmers have stopped waiting for the monsoon to behave. For years, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures pushed many smallholders into cycles of debt and ...

As India advances toward the vision of Viksit Bharat, the conversation around agriculture must expand beyond productivity to include careers, sustainability, and long-term economic resilience.

In the Garhwal Himalayan region of India, traditional agroforestry systems are not just ancient practices but a delicate balance of nature's bounty and human ingenuity. A new study evaluates how these ...

In 2007, 22-year-old P. Ramesh’s groundnut farm was losing money. As was the norm in most of India (and still is), Ramesh was using a cocktail of pesticides and fertilizers across his 2.4 hectares in ...

With forest and tree cover spanning 25.17% of India’s geographical area, according to the India State of Forest Report 2023, they are integral to its ecological security and rural livelihoods. They ...

The latest forest survey report from India suggests a slight increase in the country’s forest and tree cover in recent years. But experts say the net marginal gain masks considerable declines across ...