The world food commodity prices declined for the fifth consecutive month in August, as quotations for most benchmark items dropped, according to a new report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO Food Price Index averaged 138.0 points in August, down 1.9% from July although …

In early days of my career, when we were working with farmers for organizing cooperatives as well as other farmer development activities at GCMMF (Amul); farmers of the region at that time were facing difficulties in terms of depleting sources of groundwater, lesser pasture availability, low availability of fodder, etc. In order t…