agriculture

Size Is a Deception

Vivek Menon

Learning from the social life of Leafcutter Ants

Fire on the Farm

Siddharth Singh

Agricultural loan waivers may buy some political space but they make for poor economics

No Relief From Debt Relief

Madhavankutty Pillai

The conundrum with loan waivers

A Harvest of Distress

Sreedeep

Farmers are on the brink and the tragedy of Sangrur tells us why

A Cry in the Wilderness

Priyanka Kotamraju and Anshu Lalit

What do women want? We listen to desperate voices, from labourers to rape survivors, in Bundelkhand

Enter the Drone

Madhavankutty Pillai

From mapping pollution to counting crops, the commercial use of drones is set to boom in India. But only if there is legal clarity

Bitter Harvest

V Shoba

The politics of water has added to the woes of rural Karnataka’s suicide capital

Colin Khoury: ‘We are all beneficiaries of ancient farmers in far-flung lands’

Madhavankutty Pillai

Colin Khoury, the author of Origins of Food Crops Connect Countries Worldwide spoke to Open about the journey of foods and how globalization has given a spurt to it

Agriculture: The Missed Harvest

Ajay Vir Jakhar

The Modi Government is yet to seize the opportunity to revive and modernise Indian agriculture, which is plagued by state apathy, lack of research and the misplaced priorities of regulators