カテゴリー: Farming
This is a rare climbdown from the prime minister. But the space for dissent is still diminishing under his governmentIt is not often that Narendra Modi gives a televised address to the nation and it is met with relief, not disarray. The Indian prime mi…
Conflicting accounts about how violence broke out around convoy of minister Ajay MishraNine people have been killed in violent clashes during a protest by hundreds of farmers in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in a deadly escalation of year-lo…
As sea levels rise, growers are employing innovative methods to adapt to saline soilsLike millions of people across Bangladesh, Anita Bala, 45, relies on a small plot of land to feed her family.But for years nothing would grow. Her husband farmed shrim…
After years caught in the crossfire between the Taliban and security forces, farmers in Kandahar face a new threat, as water sources dry upThe war in Afghanistan might be over but farmers in Kandahar’s Arghandab valley face a new enemy: drought.It has …
One firm’s attempt to regain control of illegal cultivation shows Wellington’s lack of leverage over its largest trade partnerIt is the story of a global superpower, a smuggling operation, pestilence and a small hairy fruit.Ubiquitous on supermarket sh…
Faced with climate change, farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are switching from maize to essential oilsIt’s late June and the field is glowing with fragrant purple as the women in their flowing shalwar kameez arrive with scythes to harvest the lavender. In …
Photographer Prashanth Vishwanathan captured a network of community dairies providing a lifeline to off-grid farmers in Maharashtra, helping to keep milk fresh as temperatures rise. All pictures are from Climate VisualsAs global temperatures climb, a l…
Demonstrators begin hunger strike outside Delhi after week of clashes with policeIndia blocked mobile internet services in several areas surrounding Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with auth…
Farmers protesting against new agriculture laws enter grounds of historic fort as violence breaks outFarmers protesting against new agriculture laws in India broke through police barricades around the capital and entered the grounds of Delhi’s historic…
Judges order committee to look into grievances, but unions vow further demonstrations until laws repealedIndia’s supreme court has suspended a series of controversial new agriculture laws that had prompted hundreds of thousands of farmers to stage a mo…
Kerala villagers are reaping the benefits of a scheme that pays them to leave their trees rooted, reducing risk of deforestationIn the misty, hilly terrain of Wayanad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, the people with any access to land in the qu…
Protests against new agriculture laws hits transport, shops and markets across the countryFarmers in India have shut down swathes of the country’s transport, shops and markets as they escalated their protests against new agriculture laws with the launc…
Turmeric is synonymous with Sri Lankan cuisine and an import ban is helping boost production after the ravages of civil warIn Sri Lankan cuisine, a pinch of turmeric brings the gold colour to sodhi, the mildly spiced coconut soup eaten with the island’…
More than 300,000 farmers head to capital for ‘decisive battle’ with governmentHundreds of thousands of Indian farmers have marched upon Delhi and set up vast camps blocking entry to the city in protest at agriculture laws they say will destroy livelih…
Legislators from Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party threw pig guts and exchanged punches with other lawmakers in parliament on Friday as they tried to stop the premier, Su Tseng-chang, from taking questions, in a bitter dispute o…