India needs a serious national conversation on paraquat — and more broadly, on the direction Indian agriculture is taking. Paraquat is often defended as a “cheap and effective” herbicide. But cheap for whom? The price a farmer pays at the shop counter
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A reflective essay on agriculture, ecology, and the limits of our frameworks The road into the Yangtey valley in West Sikkim narrows until it stops pretending to be a road at all. On one side, a wall of rock glistens with seepage;
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Earlier this month, when bids came back for India’s latest urea import tender, most clustered around $1,000 a tonne. One bid hit $1,136. The previous tender — just a few months earlier — had cleared at $500. The world’s largest urea importer
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