Agriculture in India

Agriculture

Cover image of the book that takes you down the memory lane of rice farming (Image: Spitting Image)

Book review - Our rice tastes of spring: A celebration of rice, memory, and resistance

23 hours ago

4 min read

Decarbonizing India's urea industry: Green roadmap and economic resilience (Image: Rawpixel)

Greening urea: Can India’s urea industry go green and save water too?

12 Nov 2025

6 min read

Modern infrastructure, like this power pylon, now stands over the rice fields, a sign of the pressures facing traditional farming.

Kashmir’s rice fields are disappearing, and so are its farming traditions

08 Nov 2025

9 min read

The terraced fields of Kashmir hold drying bundles of rice. The sun casts shadows on the mountains, while the valley glows with the season’s work.

Harud: When Autumn turns Kashmir’s fields to gold

28 Oct 2025

5 min read

The land that remained unsubmerged after the dam was built has now transformed into an island, becoming a key tourist attraction of Dumboor Lake.

Dumboor lake: When fields sank and farmers became fishers in Tripura

10 Oct 2025

8 min read

Transforming barren earth into a forest in Pitchandikulam at Auroville. (Image: auroville.org)

The forest that came back: How Pitchandikulam revived land, water, and community

25 Sep 2025

8 min read

Amit Godse, a Pune based bee conservationist

Buzzing Back To Life: An interview with Amit Godse, India’s bee rescuer

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

19 Sep 2025

10 min read

Farmers in China transplant seedlings for the seasonal rice harvest, which takes weeks of hard work for every hectare

From China to India: Can perennial rice rewrite water use in agriculture?

05 Sep 2025

7 min read

Ziro valley's rice farming

Fish, fields, and feminism: How Apatani women sustain Ziro’s aquaculture in Arunachal Pradesh

22 Aug 2025

5 min read

Manzoor Wangnoo looks over papers in his office. He started as a businessman and now works with the community to protect Kashmir’s environment.

Rivers and Lakes

Himmat-e-marda, madade khuda: How one man’s faith and action revives dying water bodies in Kashmir

17 Aug 2025

12 min read

Lush green farms of Kerala, under threat of climate change

Kerala unveils plans to tackle climate risks to agriculture

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

05 Aug 2025

4 min read

Mumbai’s Sau Meenatai Thackeray Flower Market loaded with fresh stock of flowers

Before the Flowers Bloom: Climate Stress and Shifting Livelihoods in Maharashtra’s Flower Economy

18 Jul 2025

8 min read

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