Kolhapur: In the heart of Maharashtra's jowar belt lies Mangalweda, a region once synonymous with bountiful harvests of this nutritious millet.

In the remote hilly terrains of Odisha, India, cannabis cultivation thrives amid legal prohibitions and growing enforcement ...

Union Minister for Rural Development, Agriculture and Farmers Wel-fare Shivraj Singh Chouhan lauded various programmes being ...

Ajay Rout is an Indigenous farmer in a remote village in a southern district of India’s Odisha state. The village is surrounded by forest and hills with the nearest market 10km (6.2 miles) away. The ...

Nyaaba Dittoh, a 62-year-old smallholder farmer in the Nabdam District in the Upper East Region has engaged in subsistence ...

Alhaji Zakaria Fuseini, Upper East Regional Director of the Department of Agriculture noted that issues of illegal mining on ...

Lekhram Yadav, a farmer from Rajasthan, turned his passion for organic farming into a thriving business with an annual ...

In northeast Nigeria, farmers pay for their survival. Twice a year, they hand over thousands of naira to boys barely old enough to be called men — foot soldiers of the Islamic State West ...

Monocropping, or growing a single crop species, of non-indigenous, high-yielding staples – driven by policies and government ...

Anantapur: Facing continuous losses from agriculture and being unable to clear the debts, a farmer killed his wife and two ...

in our modest attempt to make farming more attractive.” According to him, the Sokoto State Government had earlier distributed agricultural inputs during last rainy season, which included 45,366 bags ...