Butterfly pea, also known as aparajita in India, grows as a vine and has a striking blue flower. Around two years ago, Brahma ...

In 2025, India advanced empowerment through digital health, social protection and skills, benefiting 42 million farmers, 32 ...

Women's collectives promote climate-resilient farming Men still dominate land ownership, key crop decisions Female self-help groups hailed as a "game-changer" CHEVATURU, India, Nov 22 (Thomson Reuters ...

Rural women across India are adapting to climate change in informal ways rooted in cultural practices and indigenous wisdom.

For more than 40 years, Missionary Sister of the Queen of Apostles Ajita Mathew Vettikuzhakunnel has worked among mostly women farmers in the northern Indian dioceses of Gorakhpur, Varanasi and ...

The FMCG major said the initiative spotlights women’s role in agriculture, where 75% of rural women are employed in the ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is considering doubling the annual payout to landowning female farmers to 12,000 rupees ($144), three sources with ...

BEED, India (AP) — On a stifling hot day this May, farm worker Shobha Londhe is reminded of the desperate conditions that led her husband to take his own life. It's the hottest and driest summer in ...

Agriculture in India is not merely an occupation, it is a way of life, deeply woven into the fabric of rural society. At its ...

The United Nations is recognizing 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer, aiming to spotlight the contributions ...

Bhaskar Rao, a farm worker, sprays natural pesticide at a multi-crop farm belonging to Meerabi Chunduru, an avid practitioner and advocate of natural farming techniques, in Aremanda village in Guntur ...