Drought
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Hit by patchy monsoon, Orissa may seek help
The rain god is certainly not smiling on the eastern states. After West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand — all of them have been hit by deficient rainfall — Orissa is also contemplating to seek drought assistance from the central government if monsoon rains do not return within the next seven days.
26/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Drought costs Russia one billion dollars in crop losses
Russia's agriculture industry faces losses of over one billion dollars after a record drought destroyed over a quarter of its crops, an official said yesterday. "The losses amount to about 32.7 billion rubles (1.07 billion dollars)," Deputy Agriculture Minister Alexander Petrikov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
25/08/2010
Bangladesh Today
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Paschim Medinipur worst hit by drought: Buddhadeb
Paschim Medinipur district is the worst affected by the drought that has hit 11 districts of West Bengal, said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee after a meeting with officials in Midnapore on Monday.
24/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Uniform criteria for declaring drought soon
New Delhi: The government is developing a uniform set of scientific criteria for declaring drought in any part of the country to overcome the problems arising out of divergent parameters used by different states.
23/08/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
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More money for drought-hit Bengal districts
Kolkata: The West Bengal Government on Friday geared up to tackle the situation in the 11 drought-hit districts hit by cancelling leave of certain department staff and more than doubling the allocation that it had announced on Monday.
Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta announced that Rs.115 crore was being allocated to help farmers take up alternate crops.
21/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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India's 'constant gardeners'
Local communities are creatively adapting traditional knowledge to cope with climate change
Keya Acharya / August 21, 2010, 0:41 IST
In some remote villages in India, which are most unlikely to pose as models of development, a quiet rejuvenation is taking place, with communities learning to adapt to the climate change reality of the country today.
Everyone knows by now that one of the fore
21/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Scientists' team to visit Bengal drought-hit areas
KOLKATA: In a bid to protect the livelihoods of scores of farmers in West Bengal's 11 drought-affected districts, a team of agricultural scientists is set to arrive in the State, visit all the drought-hit areas and distribute seeds for alternate crops after conducting soil tests.
Central Agricultural Commissioner Gurbachan Singh, who held meetings with officials of the Sate Agriculture Departme
20/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents
Drought drives decade-long decline in plant growth
Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.
Aug 2010
NASA
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