Why cotton farmers in Gujarat have accused the state authorities of protecting a pesticide company

Farmers in Bharuch district have accused Meghmani Organics of causing deformities in their crops.

Supriya Vohra

· Feb 19, 2023 · 01:30 pm

In Maharashtra, sugarcane workers suffer debt bondage as climate change ruins crops

Rights activists have raised the alarm about a cycle of debt that results in long days, illness and injury as workers struggle to work off what they owe.

Sanket Jain, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Feb 07, 2023 · 09:30 pm

In Bangladesh, tubewell owners are extorting desperate drought-stricken farmers

Millions of farmers are facing an irrigation crisis in Bangladesh’s 16 drought-prone but fertile northwestern districts.

Kamran Reza Chowdhury

· Feb 01, 2023 · 01:30 pm

In North India, unforgiving heatwaves have reduced the yield and quality of wheat this year

The early onset of high temperatures in March resulted in an estimated 10%-35% reduction in crop yields in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Kapil Kajal

· Jun 09, 2022 · 01:30 pm

Lakhimpur Kheri case witness shot at in Uttar Pradesh

Two bike-borne men intercepted a vehicle that farmer leader Dilbag Singh was travelling in and fired at a tyre and the window pane on the driver’s side.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 01, 2022 · 12:43 pm

No market, pest infestations and low yield: How organic farming along Ganga in Bihar is floundering

As the Centre makes a push for organic farming along the river in other states, it must look at lessons from the fundamental flaws in the Bihar model.

Umesh Kumar Ray

· May 15, 2022 · 01:30 pm

Cocoa farmers in Ghana are paying for the world’s sweet tooth for chocolate

‘Cocoa sustainability’ is a new form of colonisation in Africa because its real goal is to prevent planters from diversifying away from cocoa into other crops.

Michael E Odijie, The Conversation

· May 05, 2022 · 11:30 pm

Lakhimpur violence: Judge who granted bail to Ashish Mishra recuses himself from hearing fresh plea

Justice Rajeev Singh of the Allahabad HC refused to hear the plea after the Supreme Court overturned his previous verdict.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 28, 2022 · 10:44 am

Ashish Mishra returns to jail days after SC cancelled his bail in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case

The son of Union minister Ajay Mishra will be kept in a separate barrack because of security concerns, the prison superintendent said.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 24, 2022 · 05:12 pm

Ashish Mishra’s bail cancelled by Supreme Court in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case

A bench led by the chief justice asked the Union minister’s son to surrender in a week.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 18, 2022 · 10:46 am

Lakhimpur Kheri case: SC to deliver verdict on Monday on plea seeking to cancel Ashish Mishra’s bail

The son of Union minister Ajay Mishra is accused of running over people in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri district. He had walked out of jail on February 15.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 17, 2022 · 01:08 pm

Lakhimpur Kheri case: Ashish Mishra is not a flight risk, UP government tells Supreme Court

Witnesses have been provided security and there is no threat, the state told a three-judge bench headed by the chief justice.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 04, 2022 · 01:25 pm