The police firing on helpless farmers in Madhya Pradesh was one of the most grisly incidents in recent times. But the tragedy was precipitated by the apathy of the Union government

Li-Yuxing has been looking at the skies in despair. He is one of the many farmers of northeast China's Shandong and Henan provinces that produce about half of China's winter wheat. At the time when

american farmers can survive and possibly make money off the Kyoto global climate change treaty if market-based incentives are included in a final agreement, a study by the us department

Farmers have a largely unappre

Integrated pest management treatments come to the rescue of cotton farmers

soil erosion due to the fast-flowing Ravi river currents has created panic among the farmers in the Makaura Ferri

Even though farmers all over the world fear that grain yields are plateauing, Yuan Longping, the director of the National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Centre in Hunan Province, China says

the Karnataka government has decided to sell water for agricultural use through cooperatives. The move is being seen as a measure to facilitate optimum use of water resources

A new draft of the Union for Protection of New Plants Varieties protects the rights of the farmers