Agriculture

Cocoa prices touch record highs, Idukki farmers not overjoyed due to low production

April 05, 2024

Cocoa prices touch record highs, Idukki farmers not overjoyed due to low production

Before Easter, the price of dry cocoa reached Rs 750.

April 05, 2024
Farmers, politicians sweat it out in hot, dry Wayanad ahead of Lok Sabha polls

The district has become hotter by almost a degree Celsius since 2021.
April 01, 2024
How Kannur's Chathamangalam, once a bustling settlement, became a ghost village in three generations

From around 160 families, Chathamangalam in the cross-section of three hill panchayats in Kannur now has only six families.
March 30, 2024
A UP man’s tryst with Kerala startup ecosystem and a growing ‘green’ business

Rishabh Suri and his brother Rohan Suri founded Qudrat, a startup manufacturing disposable tableware, in Thiruvananthapuram in 2020 as they explored the business opportunities emerging out of waste management.
WOMEN'S DAY SPECIAL

March 08, 2024
Women farmers in Alappuzha's coastal village harvest gold from amaranthus

The amaranthus cultivation is mainly based in Taikkal, Kannikkad and Elanji.
February 26, 2024
Paddy farmers` organization warn of protest,demand procurement price of Rs 31.35 per kg

A steering committee meeting of ‘Nel Karshaka Samrakshana Samiti’, has decided to go on the warpath if the Government fails to provide a procurement price of Rs 31.35 per kg.
February 15, 2024
So Sweet! Parumala village reclaims sugarcane farming legacy after three decades

A group of farmers in this village has turned the barren field into a high yielding sugarcane farm. Their toil has also restored the legacy of this village which was once famous for sugarcane farming.

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