Tamil Nadu

Organizers: MSSRF and University of Nebraska

Venue: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai

Topics:

• Setting the Agenda – Emerging Issues in Water
• Managing Water for Food Production
• Water Productivity in Agriculture

The author gives a brief history of tank irrigation in South India. The number of irrigation tanks in India were 208,000, of which 120,000 were in the three Southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. These tanks irrigated 1.8 million hectares. The author uses graphs to point out to the decline in tank irrigation.

Clear Solution to Clean Water

Organizer: India Water Expo

Venue: Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai

Organizer: Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi

Venue: Indian Bank Management Academy for Growth & Excellence, Chennai

Organizer: C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC)

Venue: C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC), Chennai, Tamilnadu

Description:

C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC) is a Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India, established jointly by the Ministry and the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation.

Article and Image Courtesy: Everything About Water

The December edition of Droplets e-newsletter published by the Everything About Water had the following highlights:

Organizers:

This report on farmers’ experiences on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India by ICRISAT and WWF is an effort to compile the experiences of those farmers who pioneered the SRI method in various regions. They experimented in their own way, articulating their point of view on the method. 

The SRI is a national phenomenon in India and rice-cultivating farmers, particularly those who have less than one hectare of land, have experimented, refined, adopted and are promoting SRI. It is their hard work and trust that has spread this unknown method into all rice-growing states. Out of 564 rice-growing districts in India, SRI is being practiced by the farmers in about 216 districts.

The News Roundup over the last two weeks indicates reports of heavy rainfall in the state of Tamil Nadu, with deaths and destruction due to flooding, destruction of crops due to excessive rainfall. The news also reports of droughts in Orissa and rains in Maharashtra leading to destruction of crops.

Rainfall

• Rain continues to batter Tamil Nadu
• Rain plays havoc in three districts in Tamil Nadu
• Rain hits lignite mining in Tamil Nadu
• Continuing rain fury claims more lives in Tamil Nadu
• Rains continue to batter Puduchery, Karaikal in Tamil Nadu
• Rains lash Madurai: 10 dead, 73 houses damaged
• Five die in rain-related incidents in Tamil Nadu