Better Cotton Boosts Bankability for India’s Cotton Farmers

Piloting in India, the fund will help smallholder cotton farming communities accelerate field-level sustainability work and gender equality efforts.

In data: Better Cotton launches fund to drive India climate resilience, equality - Just Style

Better Cotton is launching a new fund to support cotton farming communities in India, focusing on women's empowerment and climate resilience.

Mitti Labs aims to make rice farming less harmful to the climate, starting in India | TechCrunch

Mitti Labs aims to transform rice farming in India and other South Asian markets by reducing methane emissions by 50% and water consumption by 30%.

The world’s next food superpower

Farming in India should be about profits and productivity, not poverty

Can India's carbon credits help green farming?

Agri-tech company Grow Indigo helps farmers switch to climate-friendly practices, such as zero tillage. Farmers receive payments in exchange for cutting emissions under a carbon credit scheme. Can this approach help India meet its climate goals?

It is time for India’s farmers to gain their freedom

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

KOLKATA — In the small village of Nagendrapur, located in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve (SBR) in the Indian state of West Bengal, a mere 6-foot-wide lane separates a vast wetland used for aquaculture from a cluster of poorly constructed shanties. One of these shanties is home to Roshanara Piyada, her husband, Saidulla Piyada, and their […]

Natore farmer achieves success in grape farming

Amjad Hossain, an electrical businessman from Bagrom village in Natore Sadar, has successfully cultivated grapes in his courtyard, turning a long-held dream into reality. Amjad always aspired to cultivate grapes. To pursue this dream, he began exploring Facebook and YouTube, where he connected with several young expatriates in Italy working in vineyards. They supported his vision by sending various grape vine cuttings from abroad. He planted 40 saplings of 36 different varieties on 20 decimals of land in his courtyard…

Indian women take to the skies as drone pilots

In rural India, women are training as drone pilots for the farming sector. But they're spraying chemical pesticides. Could this technology be used in better and less environmentally harmful ways to create a true win-win solution?

Farmers in India are hit hard by extreme weather. Some say expanding natural farming is the answer

Andhra Pradesh state has become a positive example of the benefits of natural farming, a process of using organic matter as fertilizers and pesticides that makes crops more resilient to bad weather.