Analysing data from 1975 to 2014, a study examining changes through three waves over 40 years by researchers at IIT Bombay and the University of Hyderabad found that productivity in India's semi-arid tropics depends less on farm size and more on access to inputs, credit, and markets.

Researchers are exploring Ulva, a genus of green seaweed, as "tomorrow's wheat of the sea" due to its remarkable nutritional profile and incredibly high productivity.

The application uses Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to identify disease symptoms from images of leaves, and is small enough to be run on IoT devices.

Researchers find combining local composts, especially phumdi, made from unique floating vegetation in Loktak Lake, with chemical fertilisers outperforms traditional methods.

Researchers have pinned down the seasonal and geographical variation of the harmful gas across the country and the reasons behind it.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) seem to have a technological solution to this problem. Led by Prof Maryam Shojaei Baghini, researchers from IIT Bombay and Gauhati University, have designed a robust, accurate and affordable soil moisture sensor using graphene oxide.

As winter sets in over Punjab, one can hear the humdrum of hundreds of machines harvesting rice across lakhs of hectares of paddy fields. In Maharashtra, villages in Vidarbha lug their snowy cotton harvest to the market. Years ago, these landscapes were a sprawling array of forests, grasslands, wetlands and multiple crops cultivated on a shifting basis.

Research shows a regional nuclear conflict could affect global crop yields and food supply

Banana, a nutritionally-rich, delicious fruit, is a widely-cultivated crop across the world and is a staple diet of people living in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Due to pests and diseases, only 13% of the global production is traded, and often, farmers in India experience severe loss due to fusarium wilt or Panama disease. A novel innovation now aims to change the fortunes of banana growers by helping them detect diseases and pests with their smartphone. In a recent study, researchers from the USA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia and India have developed a banana pest detection app powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Researchers from the University of East Anglia, UK, and the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, India, have explored how women’s work in agriculture affects nutritional outcomes for the family. The study found that although agricultural outputs have increased with women working in the farms, it has left them with little time to cater to the nutritional needs of their families and themselves, resulting in malnutrition.