カテゴリー: Farming
In rural Rajasthan, villagers have taken action against climate damage by constructing water-saving walls, trenches and dams to revive their farmlandThe villagers of Surajpura have built a wall: a 15ft (4.5 metre) mud bulwark that snakes through barren…
As the sea inundates Odisha’s coastline, livelihoods have withered with the harvest and weddings are a rarity as young women refuse to move to areas where they see no futurePhotographs by Aishwarya MohantyIn Udaykani, a coastal village in the east Indi…
Drone video shows hundreds of farmers’ trucks parked on a highway in India on their way to march on Delhi in a protest about pay. Security forces at the Shambhu border that divides Punjab and Haryana fired teargas and water cannon in an attempt to bloc…
Indian police fired water cannon and teargas at farmers and their supporters who were marching to New Delhi to pressure the government to honour a 2021 promise to pay them more for crops. Security in the capital was tightened after farming unions from …
Consumers, farmers and even McDonald’s struggle in shortage blamed on irregular weatherListening to the chatter at Delhi’s vegetable markets, only one question is on everyone’s lips: just how much will a tomato cost today?Prices of tomatoes, a staple o…
Laheri Bai’s seed bank ensures traditional grains are kept alive amid a wider effort to promote millet’s suitability for cultivation in challenging climate conditionsCollecting seeds in her mud-walled farmhouse home in central India has pushed Laheri B…
Exporting churpi, herders’ smoked yak cheese, has transformed lives in remote Himalayan villagesOn a cold, wet August morning in the windswept high pastures of the Nepalese Himalayas, a stream of herders bring fresh milk to a makeshift tent at an altit…
The secret to a healthier diet has been around for centuries: a return to unprocessed grain in its natural state. And in Asia, the health benefits could be hugeA plan to develop a new breed of iron-rich rice that could ward off disease was swiftly aban…
Nepali workers who quit jobs and borrowed cash to come to UK are out of work just weeks after arrivingNepali workers hired to pick fruit on British farms say they have been left thousands of pounds in debt after being sent home only weeks after they ar…
Many farmers in south-western Bangladesh use floating rafts made from invasive water hyacinths to grow vegetables during the monsoon season – when dry land is scarce – to ensure food security in the low-lying country, which has recently been experienci…
Pork costs in China, the world’s biggest consumer of the meat, rose an average of 22.5% last monthThe price of Chinese pork surged to a new high in August, prompting authorities to take the year’s first dip into national meat reserves to ensure supply …
Government also cites food security after heatwave stunted domestic wheat output and drove up pricesIndia’s cabinet has approved restrictions on wheat flour exports to calm prices in the local market.The government banned the export of wheat itself in …
Local authorities told to take measures and ‘use every unit of water carefully’ in effort to save autumn harvestA drought in China is threatening food production, prompting the government to order local authorities to take all available measures to ens…
In the 1980s, farmers in Bangladesh went from paddies to ponds, letting salt water flood their land. Now millions are left counting the costAsadul Islam peers into his pond in south-west Bangladesh and watches as hundreds of caged crabs float past bene…
Milk and cheese output from world’s largest producer faces catastrophic decline unless more heat stress resistant cattle are bredKailas Ramasamy gently guides his cows into a hangar-sized shed, tethers them to their posts, lays out their fodder and cl…