This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization. It’s 2016 and Simone Strey looks giddy. In the video, a clip from a series ...

Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for about 58 percent of India’s population, according to the India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF). While millions of people in India depend on farming ...

Pilantix is a mobile crop advisory app that helps farmers and extension workers diagnose issues with their crops and offers appropriate treatment measures. All this is available at a click of a button ...

The Plantixa app was developed in Berlin, Germany, by a team of graduate science students who came together with the aim of helping farmers to combat disease, pest damage and nutrient deficiency.

Sugarcane and tomato farmer Sandip Shinde, 34, uses the Plantix app to check his crops for diseases. His images are helping Peat build a bigger picture about the health of crops across India. Tushar ...

When Simone and Rob Strey walked into a Goa bar sometime in March this year, heads turned. Ravindra, a local farmer in his 30s, couldn’t help but ask the German couple what they were doing in India in ...