The UN’s food agency was born in the wake of catastrophe. Three quarters of a century later, its mission has been made more relevant to the world at large by another global scourge   I won’t deny it: when I took over as Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) last year, I could barely contain my emotion. FAO’s foundation, after all, had preceded — if only by a matter of days — that of the United Nations itself. That I, born into a Chinese

Trends across different rainfall zones demonstrated patterns that can be linked to changes recorded for large-scale climate systems, the study found Most of South Africa’s seasonal rainfall occurs during the warmer summer months, from October to March. As a result, October is an important period for farmers to begin planning when to sow crops (such as maize, wheat and sunflowers) for the growing season. October is also an important period for the tourism industry to think about water supplies for the upcoming summer holiday season. The timing of summer

Country director, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics talks to DTE on onion price volatality, amendement to Essential Commodities Act, 1955  It is a crisis that repeats itself year after year: A poor yield of onion crop leads to supply crunch — and a sharp spike in its price. The Union government on September 18, 2020 issued a notification prohibiting the export of onions to check the spiralling prices. Being a key crop, onion often suffers from supply crunch and price volatility.    Arabinda Kumar Padhee, country

A landless farmer from Vetale village near Pune, she has to work for Rs 100 a day to make ends meet Her fragile frame may belie reality for she has nerves of steel. Padma Bombale is a farmer from the village of Vetale that falls in the Khed block of Pune district in Maharashtra. She is a landless farmer who has seen many adversities apart from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from November 2019 onwards. She works as a daily labourer like many women from her village

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The century-old movement by Bhagat Singh’s uncle was against unjust British efforts to exploit Punjab’s farmers, notes author Amandeep Sandhu's 2019 book Excerpted with permission from Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines by Amandeep Sandhu, published by Westland, October 2019 The crisis is not only of Panjab. It is a national agrarian crisis. The reason Panjab is relevant is that this was the original laboratory of the so-called Green Revolution that later spawned the White (milk), Blue (fish), Golden (honey and fruits), Pink (onion), Silver (eggs), Red (meat and tomato),