Agriculture in India

Agriculture

Woman working in a rice field near Junagadh, Gujarat

Odisha pushes for gender smart farm equipment

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

19 Nov 2025

4 min read

Machines rewriting India's rice farming story (Image: Manoj K)

How machines are rewriting the story of India’s rice production

18 Nov 2025

7 min read

Fields left behind, waterlogged and wild, claimed by keekar (Prosopis juliflora)

When the ground refuses to drink: How waterlogging and soil salinity are impacting Haryana’s agriculture

18 Nov 2025

13 min read

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

13 Nov 2025

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

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