India is home to tropical forests, especially in regions that experience heavy rainfall, warm temperatures, and high humidity year-round. New study reveals they generate wealth.

In February 2025, Odisha-based Indian non-profit Landstack – Center for Land, in collaboration with the Gujarat-based Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), hosted the Garo Stewardship Toolkit ...

In 2007, 22-year-old P. Ramesh’s groundnut farm was losing money. As was the norm in most of India (and still is), Ramesh was using a cocktail of pesticides and fertilizers across his 2.4 hectares in ...

It has many names: multi-story cropping, agroforestry, forest farming. All of these refer to farming within treed land. It’s a great way to seamlessly integrate the farm into the landscape and ...

The agroforestry practice of forest farming may be a solution to conservation challenges surrounding the wild exploitation of ramps, often called wild leeks, but it requires proper site selection to ...

Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh plan to launch state-specific agroforestry policies to include tree-based farming as a driver of sustainable economic growth.

The latest forest survey report from India suggests a slight increase in the country’s forest and tree cover in recent years. But experts say the net marginal gain masks considerable declines across ...

An IT engineer who once worked in Bengaluru’s corporate sector has transformed hundreds of acres of barren land into thriving food forests, reportedly planting more than one lakh trees across India ...