The adoption of micro-irrigation projects has resulted in water saving, yield and income enhancement at the farm level. However, the overall...

Notice of Retraction:

The Economic & Political Weekly has retracted the article “Water Harvesting Traditions and the Social Milieu in...

This is a report on the first-ever census survey conducted on suicides by farmers in the two most affected districts of Punjab, Sangrur and...

Agriculture currently produces only 30% of total income in the Telangana region, but it remains the basis for survival of nearly 78% of the...

While the per capita availability of agricultural land has been decreasing rapidly everywhere in India, this article points out the socio-economic...

The Ministry of Water Resources is at present engaged in revising the National Water Policy 2002. Instead of trying to make changes in the 2002...

Agricultural education and R&D in India have grown overwhelmingly over the years but funding levels have not kept pace with growth in the...

During the 1960s and 1970s there was an intense debate on the observed inverse relationship between farm size and per hectare agricultural...

India is the largest producer and consumer of pulses in the world. However, pulses production has been stagnant at between 11 and 14 million...

Semi-arid Gujarat has clocked high and steady growth at 9.6% per year in agricultural state domestic product since 1999-2000. What has driven this...