Kumar’s multifaceted book recounts the story of India’s green revolution—or how the country became self-sufficient in food grain production by the 1970s. This revolution had its origins in colonial ...

In March 1952, when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the Sindri fertiliser factory in present-day Jharkhand, he ...

India’s food security rests on a continuous supply of synthetic fertilisers derived from imported natural gas, phosphate, and potash ...

NEW DELHI (ANI) – M.S Swaminathan is no more. The nature of world politics and food crises and issues therein has changed over the decades. Swaminathan died at the age of 98 in Chennai on September 28 ...

India is the second-largest wheat producer globally, driven mainly by Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab. Together, ...

The wheat-paddy monoculture secured India’s food bowl but left Punjab with depleted soil and vanishing water. To survive, the state must move past a model of extraction and build a future rooted in ...