Agriculture

India is slowly, and perhaps inevitably, moving away from being an agriculture-dependent society.

Some of the primary reasons for the state to launch such an initiative are concerns like dwindling farmlands, a lesser number of people taking up agriculture as a livelihood and giving up agriculturally suitable land away for commercial purposes.

Comprising of a bowl on a tripod, an LED bulb and a solar panel, the contraption’s modus operandi is interestingly simple yet impressive for its cost-effectiveness.

India has a plethora of festivals that honour its locally-grown produce and we’ve hand-picked the 10 best bets for you!

Today only a few indigenous varieties of pepper grows on Kerala soil, out of which many are believed to have either become extinct or severely endangered.

"It is time for tea garden management to come out of the colonial mindset and empower the workers.”

Farmers in an Aurangabad village prone to drought and Maoist insurgency have defied scientific opinion, and cultivated strawberries successfully, boosting the local economy. Mohd Imran Khan takes a closer look.

Thomas was disturbed by the amount of fertilisers and pesticides sprayed upon fruits and vegetables supplied in not just marketplaces but also on those that were grown in kitchen backyards.

Rattled by the increasing farmer deaths and suicides in rural Maharashtra, specifically in Yavatmal and Vidarbha region, this engineer also decided to opt for farming as a second career to alleviate their sufferings.

This technique uses cuttings from trees to grow more trees. It's fast, uses less resources, and RS Arjunan is convinced that it will help restore the green cover of Tamil Nadu.