When demonetisation struck, a farmer from Punjab’s Jalandhar district decided he would never again depend on a single crop.

In the absence of meaningful agrarian reform, the area (lateral) expansion of small farms is not feasible. The only possibility left is to seek increased returns through improved ‘land-augmenting’ ...

New research shows a cereal familiar today as birdseed was carried across Eurasia by ancient shepherds and herders laying the foundation, in combination with the new crops they encountered, of ...

Background and scope Multi-cropping approaches in production systems, where more than one crop cultivar or species are grown simultaneously, are gaining increased attention and application. Benefits ...