Farm Distress
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In Maharashtra’s arid Solapur, many farmers are prospering by growing drumstick
Hiren Kumar Bose
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Karnataka farmers hope Supreme Court order on Cauvery water will make farm distress a campaign issue
TA Ameerudheen
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Maharashtra’s agri markets are returning to cash – even though they’re still reeling from note ban
Mridula Chari
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India’s Met department has forecast normal monsoon this summer – but don’t start celebrating yet
Nidhi Jamwal, IndiaSpend.com
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India’s criteria for classifying drought-hit regions are causing many cases to go unreported
Nidhi Jamwal, IndiaSpend.com
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A litany of miseries: After crop failure and debt, pesticides are killing farmers in Vidarbha
Meena Menon
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Tamil Nadu has stringent laws against moneylending at exorbitant rates. Why does it persist then?
Vinita Govindarajan
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‘Nothing has changed since the protests’: Why farmers are still getting low prices for their crops
Mridula Chari
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‘Let them sell pakodas’: Maharashtra farmers do not benefit from growing even high-priced tur now
Manas Roshan
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India’s farm loan waiver bill could rise to Rs 3.1 lakh crore. Is it affordable?
Alison Saldanha, IndiaSpend.com Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com
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Behind the farmer unrest in Haryana there is a history of instability in crop prices
Abhishek Dey
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Far from being a solution, farm loan waivers pose serious moral, political and economic problems
Anupam Gupta
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Crack in the NDA: Raju Shetti breaks ranks, vows to join fight against Modi’s ‘anti-farmer regime’
Dhirendra K Jha
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Farmers protest: Madhya Pradesh was supposed to be an agriculture success story. What went wrong?
Rakesh Dixit
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Tears of joy: How onion farming is helping Madhya Pradesh’s Korku Adivasis tide over drought
Rohit Jain
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In Tamil Nadu, farmers have lost an entire crop season to the Cauvery row
Sruthisagar Yamunan