Czechs risk a banana-free diet, lower food quality and higher prices if a bill making its way through parliament is passed, say critics. The winners would be large, politically-linked farming groups. The controversial amendment to...
The topmost agenda and the much-needed attention from the Government today is addressing the farmers’ needs. In the recent years, crop failures, indebtedness, non-remunerative prices and low returns had taken, unpleasant shapes leading to protests...
Nirmala Sitharaman, FM presented all-encompassing budget covering almost all sectors – infra, agriculture, education, health care, skill development etc. The full-time budget of Modi V2 Government was riding high on people’s and industry’s expectations. Sops...
India is primarily and widely known as an agrarian economy where the mainstay of a large chunk of the people is agriculture. More than 50% of the population either depends directly or indirectly on agriculture....
Miang tea trees, the forerunner of plantation tea, grow wild in Thailand’s forests. Now, eco-friendly businesses are using the tree’s leaves to strive for the perfect cup of tea and foster biodiversity at the same...
Limoncella, Etna, Gravenstein — these are just some of the heirloom apples and other crop varieties that Italian organic farmers are growing in a bid to save the country’s vibrant food heritage. Cristiano del Toro...
Agriculture is one of the most labour intensive sectors and engages the largest workforce. Today, with the advancement of economies and expansion of job opportunities there is an evident shift towards urban or non-farm sector. As...
Hunger levels have been rising for three years in a row, states a new report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. In 2017, Africa and South America saw the highest increase. One in nine...
It is paradoxical that it is in a country like India that economists are so serioulsy taken the climate change subject head-on. Particularly in the equivalent of the Report on the Nation’s Accounts. The Economic...
The Union Budget 2018 had a very strong theme. It has given big thrust to agriculture. The focus on agriculture was welcome, given huge periods of rural distress. Agriculture in India contributes nearly 15 percent...
Fiery protests by farmers in two key Indian states ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party have tossed a simmering agrarian crisis into the spotlight. Murali Krishnan reports. It has been a season...
Although the Emerald Isle has become the first country in the world to divest from fossil fuels, agriculture there remains carbon-intensive. As Ireland hosts the IPCC, activists ask: How can the country become greener? Rolling...
