Ground Report
Farmers suffer as mustard price fall below MSP due to low price import of edible oils
Mustard prices are ruling below the MSP of Rs 5,450 per quintal by Rs 1,000-1,200...
Millets: The lost and found crop - thanks to FAO-backed community seed banks
Over the past two decades, communities in central and eastern Indian states had...
Women agripreneurs leading the way
at present women constitute only 14 per cent of the total entrepreneurship in India...
Pastoralism: A clarion call to save the Maldhari livelihood
Maldharis are among those few indigenous people who have contributed least to the...
Walmart Foundation to support 1 mn small farmers in India over next 5 yrs
The foundation has also announced two new grants, which include USD 3 million to...
India, dairy to the world by focusing on animal productivity and breed improvement
Even with an average milk production of 2.5-3 litres per cattle, we are the largest...
Potato goes the onion way - neither price nor buyer, farmers are upset
after the crash of onion prices, when the bumper crop of potatoes came in the market,...
Laxmi & Saraswati make their mark on Int’l Women’s Day
Laxmi Bai is a member as well as farmer group representative of Chirayu Women Crop...
Road ahead for farmers disappointed with makhana; sowing to start in Feb
Makhana (fox nuts), full of medicinal properties and beneficial for health, ruined...
Agri Infra Fund silently changing agriculture landscape
Within two-and-a-half years of the implementation of the AIF, the scheme has mobilized...
Farmers getting good Basmati prices, but yield declines due to rain
Although the farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan are getting...
Project ‘Hriday’ is about alliance of Plan, People and Policymakers for sustainable development
AROH Foundation, a national-level NGO, and LIC Housing and Finance Ltd collaborated...
Foundation for $5trn economy is possible through local govts: Dr WR Reddy, NIRDPR former DG
Dr W. R. Reddy former DG of NIRDPR, Hyderabad, inaugurated the ICSSR-sponsored two-day...
Mega field experiment of mating disruption PBKnot technology to manage pink bollworm in cotton zone in North India
As part of “Project Bandhan – A Knot of PBW Protection”, the South Asia Biotechnology...
HCL Foundation, Flipkart to empower rural women artisans
HCL Foundation has partnered with Flipkart to provide livelihood opportunities to...
Create an All India Panchayati Raj Services (IPRS) on the model of IAS, IPS, IFS, recommends a symposium on PRIs in Andhra
AGRASRI, an ICSSR grant-in-aid research institute for maintenance and development,...
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