Several states across the country battled severe drought in both 2014 and 2015. Some, including Maharashtra, experienced two successive yea...

Farmers, especially those harvesting guar, cotton, soybean and jeera, say they don’t have much of a choice as traders offer only old notes,...

Monsanto has been hit with price control in India. How did the MNC, known worldwide for its lobbying prowess, end up with grief in India? E...

Even as the state reels under a shortage of pulses, estimates for the drought-hit kharif season which just ended show that the crisis could...

Vidarbha, from where Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis hails, reported the highest number of farmer suicides in the state, with as many as 5...

Nearly half the village of 5,000 people sold has off its bullocks over the last few months, says sarpanch S M Balki.

It was a spate of farm suicides in Vidarbha that moved the nation and led the UPA government to announce a debt waiver for farmers.