Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …
In the context of agriculture both crop modelling as well as statistical modelling approaches are used to assess climate change impacts. Studies comparing both approaches across developed as well as developing country context find little or no difference in their estimates. This paper presents a methodological review of the statistical …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Review of Schemes for Doubling Farmers’ Income, 28/06/2019. Review of the performance of the schemes is a continuous process. Government has reoriented agriculture sector by focusing on income centeredness. In order to realise net positive returns for the farmer, schemes as follows, are being …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Schemes for Farmers Affected by Natural Calamities, 28/06/2019. The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare is concerned with providing relief under NDRF to farmers who have lost their crops due to drought, hailstorm, pest attack and cold wave/frost. An amount of Rs.15823.36 crore …
The working paper documents the pilot rural radio campaign, dubbed as 'Climate Change i-Broadkas Mo', implemented by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Southeast Asia (CCAFS SEA) and the Philippine Federation of Rural Broadcasters (PFRB) in strategic regions of the Philippines from 2015 to …
While 42% of India's land area is currently facing a drought, 88.11% of Punjab's districts and 76.02% of Haryana's are drought-resilient, according to a 2018 study published in Journal of Hydrology Mumbai: Shifting the major chunk of rice production to India’s central and eastern states like Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, while …
While Africa holds more than 60% of the world’s arable land, the continent’s share in global agricultural production remains low. Vast areas of land are uncultivated and productivity is lower than in much of the rest of the world. Nevertheless, farming is key for the majority of African economies and …
Climate change poses a major threat to food systems and livelihoods all over the world. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses these challenges. CSA stands for including climate change into the planning and implementation of sustainable agricultural strategies. More specifically, CSA has three objectives to achieve these overarching goals: (1) sustainably increasing …
The cases have been filed under IPC sections that deal with cheating and dishonesty, being a member of an unlawful assembly, obstructing a public servant from discharging public function and disobedience to order promulgated by a public servant. The Government of Maharashtra has begun a crackdown on farmers planting illegal …
Nearly 40-60% of the orange orchards in the Vidarbha region have gone completely dry. Orange farmers in Maharashtra are caught in the grip of drought with their orchards withering amid an intense heat wave. Nearly 40-60% of the orange orchards in the Vidarbha region have gone completely dry. Shridhar Thakre, …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Agricultural Waste, 25/06/2019. Paddy Stubble burning is mainly practiced in Indo-gangetic plains of the States of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to clear the fields for Rabi Crop sowing. However, as per satellite data, overall about 15% and 41% reduction in number of burning …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Agricultural Waste, 25/06/2019. Paddy Stubble burning is mainly practiced in Indo-gangetic plains of the States of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to clear the fields for Rabi Crop sowing. However, as per satellite data, overall about 15% and 41% reduction in number of burning …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Crop Loss Due to Adverse Weather, 25/06/2019. The Government monitor calamity-wise / crop-wise / season-wise crop loss due to sudden change in weather on regular basis. Based on the information received from the States/UTs, details of the area having crop loss due to adverse …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Doubling of Farmers’ Income, 25/06/2019. In order to increase the income of farmers of the country including Bundelkhand, the Inter-ministerial Committee constituted by the Government had identified seven sources of income growth viz., improvement in crop productivity; improvement in livestock productivity; resource use efficiency …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Implementation of PMKSY, 25/06/2019. The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) was launched during the year 2015-16. The scheme is being implemented in various States of the country. State wise funds released and achievements made under AIBP and HKKP [Command Area Development (CAD), Surface …
The report — Byte by byte: policy innovation for transforming Africa’s food system with digital technologies— summarizes the key findings of a systematic analysis of what seven African countries at the forefront of progress on digitalization of the agriculture sector have done right. It analyzes which institutional and policy innovations …
Greenpeace India’s Solarisation of Agriculture report, examines five models of solar irrigation pumps in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Odisha, looking at state policies and cost/revenue and benefit sharing associated with each case study.
The efforts to promote coffee cultivation in the temperate zone have started yielding the results and the area under the coffee plantation has increased four times from 7.34 hectares in 2014-15 to 30.12 hectares in 2018-19. The Agriculture Department has provided 73,780 plants for coffee cultivation in Kangra, Mandi, Hamirpur, …
Scientists of the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR) have sounded an alert for the possibility of an attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton in Haryana this year in view of the detection of the worm last year in a village in Jind district. The cotton scientists have maintained …
In a first in the country, a farmer was arrested in Maharashtra for being in possession of banned herbicide-tolerant BT (HTBT) cotton seeds. The farmer, Vasant Vinayak Mule, 41, from Umrad village, was produced before the Buldhana district court on Wednesday, a day after his arrest. He was denied bail …
Rain-fed agriculture currently constitutes 60–95% of farmed land across the developing world. Changing rainfall patterns could have a large impact on agriculture in developing countries. Using over 20 different climate models, researchers have projected how precipitation could be affected by climate change. Key takeaways include: unless emissions are curbed soon, …
