Farming Forward
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Latest Episodes
How Trade Policy Is Changing Farm Costs and Profits
Ramesh Kumar is forty two years old, standing at the edge of his wheat field in Gurdaspur, Punjab, doing math in his head, fertilizer costs, expected yield, market prices, then school fees and loan repayments. I don't know if we can afford it t...
Closing the gender gap in Asian agriculture
Closing the gender gap in agriculture could add up to one trillion dollars to global GDP, and help forty five million people escape food insecurity. The United Nations has designated 2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer to confront t...
Precision Farming for Small Farms: What Actually Works
Say precision farming to most smallholders, and the image that comes to mind is usually a giant, autonomous tractor with a screen full of satellite data, something built for a thousand hectare operation, not a one or two hectare plot. That imag...
why farms still work by hand
Right now, across low and middle income countries, roughly half of all farm work still gets done by human or animal power, not machines. Not in the past, right now, in 2026. This episode looks at the real reasons so many farms across Asia still...
Skip the Plow: The Case for Strip-Till in Asia's Rice-Wheat Fields
Across South Asia's Indo-Gangetic Plains, over a billion people depend on a single rotation, rice followed by wheat, grown on more than thirteen million hectares. How that soil gets prepared between the two crops turns out to matter enormously,...
