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Rainfed Agriculture
All eyes on agriculture
Posted on 31 Jan, 2017 07:28 PMThe agriculture sector in India’s drought-ravaged regions is in a state of crisis. Millions of farmers are pushed out of their farms and into the cities for jobs.
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States fail to tackle groundwater crisis
Posted on 09 Jan, 2017 09:52 AMA majority of states fail to stop overexploitation of groundwater
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Grand scheme to befriend farmers
Posted on 26 Nov, 2016 06:38 PM“Agriculture is a highly risky venture,” says Nagi Reddy, a farmer in Anantapur. Reddy is a small farmer affected by uncertainty in crop production stemming from unpredictable weather events and pest attacks, especially in his cotton crop. He works on his 2.5-acre farm and the rest of the time, he clocks in as a tenant farmer at an adjacent farm.
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Crop change for better yield?
Posted on 15 Nov, 2016 10:48 AMThe past few months saw Karnataka and Tamil Nadu bickering over the sharing of the Cauvery water. It was the failure of the south-west monsoon that had put crops in Karnataka at risk, forcing the government to stop water supplies to Tamil Nadu. The arrival of the north-east monsoon in Tamil Nadu, however, has eased this tension.
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Empty fields remain as schemes fail
Posted on 13 Oct, 2016 01:20 PMPhaguni Ho hails from East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. Come March, Phaguni’s husband will migrate to Chennai to work as a daily wager at a construction site. Unable to handle the small farm in Singhbhum alone, she has given it on lease to another farmer. “I have to look after my four children and livestock.
![Phaguni is one of the victims of the crisis in farming.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/padma.jpg?itok=eEN2ob0Y)
Majuli, world’s largest river island
Posted on 11 Sep, 2016 08:34 PMGuinness World Records names Assam’s Majuli world’s largest river island
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Art of Living guilty of damaging Yamuna floodplains
Posted on 16 Aug, 2016 09:57 AMWorld Culture Festival damaged Yamuna floodplains, concludes NGT
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Thanks to dirty water, Indian children stunted
Posted on 30 Jul, 2016 11:39 PMIndia has largest number of stunted children in the world: Study
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Rapar ends its long wait for water
Posted on 20 Jul, 2016 09:26 AMSummer temperatures soar to a gruelling 50ocelsius in Rapar, a little known block in Gujarat’s Kutch district. Land here is dry, saline and arid; the monsoon is erratic. Many a times, the entire year’s rain falls in a short span of two or three days, doing more harm than good.
![Rapar has many water structures now. (Source: Samerth Trust)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_8849_copy.jpg?itok=xEFd9q9G)