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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicAgriculture

Topic: Agriculture

Govt panel to assess impact of higher temperatures on wheat crop, say officials

Lack of winter rains has raised temperatures in parts of North India, where farmers grow wheat. Last week, the daily average temperature hit March levels, according to weather officials.

Insects in Asia are in serious trouble. No, pesticides & climate change aren’t the only cause

We're so used to considering insects as pests that we think that with fewer of them, agriculture might prosper. This new study reveals why that is not the case.

Budget 2023 must focus on agricultural productivity, not production. Go beyond populism

Data is a challenge, but with imaginative incentives, metrics, and solutions such as an AgriStack, we can look forward to a new agricultural revolution over the coming decade.

India seeks discount in rare one-year urea import tender, say sources

India has issued a global urea tender asking producers to quote a discount for the supply of 600,000 tonnes of urea & seeks to cut import costs & secure cheaper supplies of the soil nutrient.

Agriculture growth crossed pre-pandemic levels this year, but other sectors are still lagging

Government data shows that India’s GDP was 5.6% higher in first half of 2022 than in same period of 2019, but not all sectors are growing at the same pace.

Odisha Cabinet approves Rs 367 cr for ’empowerment of women in agriculture’

The Cabinet has also approved the provision of Rs 1142.24 crore for 4 years for implementation Of the State Sector Scheme- 'Development of Potato, Vegetable and Spices'.

Ants hold solutions to human problems – wise farming practices to efficient navigation

Much like human farmers, each species of fungus-growing ant is very particular about the type of crops they cultivate.

India’s wheat planting gathers momentum, latest data shows acreage up by nearly 10%

Indian farmers have planted wheat on 4.5 million hectares since 1 October, when the current sowing season began, up 9.7% from a year ago, showed the latest farm ministry data.

One way Indian govt can remedy food crisis and boost production — vertical farms

These farms occupy buildings or shipping containers where they produce greater yields than traditional outdoor farming and use 70 to 95 per cent less water.

This govt mission is changing lives of 1.74 crore women through climate-resilient agriculture

Three-fourths of the full-time workers on Indian farms are women because men move to cities. Yet, there was little attention to uplifting them and their finances.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.