About 5 million stray cattle roam India, eating garbage, causing car accidents, attacking people, and spreading disease. Farmers are turning to artificial insemination to control numbers, and the ...

India has introduced two high-yield synthetic cattle breeds, Karan Fries and Vrindavani, significantly boosting milk ...

Bhaskar Rao, a farm worker, sprays natural pesticide at a multi-crop farm belonging to Meerabi Chunduru, an avid practitioner and advocate of natural farming techniques, in Aremanda village in Guntur ...

A viral disease has killed nearly 100,000 cows and buffaloes in India and sickened over 2 million more. The outbreak has triggered devastating income losses for cattle farmers since the disease not ...

PORT ROYAL, Pennsylvania (RNS) — On a quiet Sunday on rural Pennsylvania farmland, Dhruva and his favorite cow, Tabby, meet at dawn. While one recites a mantra to Lord Krishna using prayer beads, the ...

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Abinaya Tamilarasu said her four cows are part of the family. She has a degree in commerce from a local college, but prefers being home milking cows and tending to her family’s ...

Mattu Pongal is celebrated on the third day of the four-day Pongal festival, mainly in Tamil Nadu and among Tamil communities across the world. This special day is dedicated to cattle, especially cows ...

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 ...

GUNTUR, India (AP) — There's a pungent odor on Ratna Raju's farm that he says is protecting his crops from the unpredictable and extreme weather that's become more frequent with human-caused climate ...