Almost all farmers in India have a cow, and if they don’t they know someone who does.” This method is part of a series of ancient techniques that have been forgotten in India and are now being revived ...

India's fruit trees are under threat, but a community of gardeners is using an old trick to save them – and even bring some back from the dead.

Ancient India had read the Earth and stars together, as a single text. It wrote its agricultural calendar in seasons, constellations and the right timing, not in spreadsheets.

Thought to have arrived from China in 2000 BC, the latest research shows that domesticated rice agriculture in India and Pakistan existed centuries earlier, and suggests systems of seasonal crop ...

Vandana Shiva is an environmental scholar and activist. She tells Times Evoke about the vulnerabilities industrial farming cause — and the Indian wisdoms which can heal these: The ‘Indian food ...

Agriculture in the north started earlier, some 8,000 years ago, and was distinctly related to the crops first domesticated in West Asia; farming in the south initially involved native plants ...