When we picture a farmer in India, the image is almost always of a man standing tall in a field, sickle in hand, tilling the soil. But the reality shows a different picture. According to the National Sample Survey data , 80% of economically active women in India are employed in agriculture sector. Yet their role in agriculture largely remains invisible and policies rarely take them into account. These women work on their family land, as daily wage labourers, and in looking a

On May 4th, 2025, the Government of India announced the release of two new rice varieties : Kamala and Pusa DST Rice 1. These were not bred by conventional methods but were developed using gene-editing, a powerful technology that alters the DNA of living things in a lab What is Gene Editing? Why Should You Worry? Gene editing is a set of laboratory techniques that allow scientists to make supposedly 'minor’ changes to the DNA of a plant or animal. One popular tool is called C

​ICAR is an autonomous body public body under Ministry of Agriculture. It is the largest network of agriculture research and educational institutions in the world. The Council is the apex body for coordinating, guiding and managing research and education in agriculture including horticulture, fisheries and animal sciences in the entire country. With 113 ICAR institutes and 74 agricultural universities spread across the country this is one of the largest national agricultural