Reportage Amid COVID crisis, Assam gets another blow as African swine flu kills 2,500 pigs in the state African swine fever, a contagious disease of domestic and wild pigs has spread in 306 villages across six districts in...
Reportage Lockdown woes: Many camels in Rajasthan are succumbing to a contagious skin disease Owing to the nationwide lockdown, treatment could not be provided to these camels suffering from the infection. It’s a big...
Reportage Shortage of fodder, low sales, and the lockdown have hit goat farmers in India hard Holi in March and Bakra-Eid in May are two major occasions wherein goat farmers make good money. But due to...
Reportage Bihar’s litchi farmers are facing two back-to-back bad years. Last year, it was chamki … now corona By March-April traders from across India would start arriving in Bihar to buy litchis in bulk. This year, the farmers...
Reportage Apple and litchi production likely to get affected as honey bees are “locked up” inside their boxes If honey bees, locked inside bee boxes, do not get a favourable food and climate at the right time, it...
Reportage After untimely rains and hailstorm, coronavirus lockdown leaves mango farmers in a fix The farmers and traders who are into mango cultivation used to reap good profits within 3-4 months, every year. With...
Reportage Costly fodder adds to the woes of cattle farmers as they were already struggling to sell milk The price of dry fodder, usually sold at Rs 600-700 per quintal, has reached Rs 800-1,000. Also, its shortage has...
Reportage Lockdown woes for dairy farmers: They are not able to sell milk and don’t know what to do with it Most of dairy farmers sell milk to hotels and tea shops. But now, as everything is shut due to the...
Reportage Poultry hubs in Haryana are in tatters, broilers and layer farms are closing by the dozens With a turnover of Rs 15,000 crore, Haryana is the largest centre of egg-broiler chicken. But, the rumours linking coronavirus...
Reportage The poultry farmers, already reeling under losses, get another blow because of the lockdown Production companies have sufficient stock of poultry feed, but they are not able to supply it because of the nationwide...
