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 …
Levy will be up to four times the cess being collected by the water resources regulator Fearing the rapid depletion of groundwater, the Maharashtra government will levy a cess on the use of deep wells for its extraction, either for agricultural or industrial use. The Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority …
A Greenpeace India, Gujarat Energy Research Management Institute (GERMI) and IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program analysis finds that if solar pumps were to replace traditional water pumps in farms across the country, India could surpass its solar target of 100 GW by 2022. These grid-connected, net metered solar pumps will also …
Crops obtained by plant breeding technique mutagenesis should fall under laws restricting the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Europe’s highest court said on Wednesday, in a victory for environmental campaigners. The biotech industry had argued that much of mutagenesis, or gene editing, is effectively little different to the mutagenesis …
Nigeria’s central Middle Belt region is home to a diverse cultural population of semi-nomadic cattle herders and farming communities. For decades, the region has experienced increasingly violent attacks that have been partially attributed to direct competition over access and use of natural resources. According to a report released by the …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to the Mukhyamantri Kisan Aay Badhotri Solar Yojana, which will give farmers engaged in agricultural activities a chance to enhance their incomes by allowing the installation of solar panels on their farmland. Briefing reporters after the cabinet meeting, chief minister …
NEW DELHI: The solar farm scheme will serve two purposes: protect the green belt on the capital’s periphery as demarcated in Master Plan Delhi 2021 from being sold off as real estate and generate clean energy at the same time. Varsha Joshi, secretary (power), shared some highlights of the scheme …
More than 200 environmental activists were killed last year for opposing large-scale agricultural and mining projects, a global rights watchdog said on July 24. The British-based Global Witness said it had documented 207 cases in 22 countries where activists were killed while trying to protect land from development, often for …
Swollen shoot disease is worsening in the heart of Ivory Coast’s cocoa belt with some plantations seeing a significant drop in production, farmers and exporters said on Tuesday. The viral disease, which typically kills trees within a few years, first appeared a few years ago in southern and western Ivory …
A drought and heat wave in Europe this summer could cause a shortage of potatoes big enough for industrial production of French fries, a German industry group warned on Tuesday. Potato crop yields might be cut by at least 25 percent, the group said. Large size potatoes needed by food …
El Salvador on Tuesday began taking emergency measures in a drought that has plagued the country for a month and cost tens of thousands of farmers their corn crops, the civil protection agency said. The east of the Central American country has gone 33 days without rain and temperatures have …
In its latest draft of Maharashtra Groundwater (Development and Management) Rules 2018, the government has made a provision that will require farmers in notified groundwater-stressed areas to seek permission before sowing "water-intensive crop". Unhappy with the decision, farmers’ organisations say that there are alternative ways to discourage farmers from growing …
NEW DELHI: A scientific study commissioned by the government to assess the impact of climate change has projected reduction in crop yields for irrigated maize, wheat and rain-fed rice, Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday. The study has also found that malaria has spread to new areas and its transmission …
Brazil, already a farm powerhouse, will account for an estimated 70 percent of the world’s arable land growth through 2050, Alan Bojanic, a representative for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said during a conference on Monday.Bojanic, addressing the Global Agribusiness Forum in São Paulo, said the UN …
HAMBURG (Reuters) - The market is still uncertain about the size of Germany’s drought-damaged wheat crop as harvesting spreads northwards to areas which have suffered most from the dry weather, traders and analysts said on Monday. Germany is the European Union’s second largest grain producer after France. Its crops wilted …
Current crop yields could provide nutritious food for the projected 2050 global population, but only if we make radical changes to our dietary choices, a new study shows. Researchers from Lancaster University have analysed global and regional food supplies to reveal the flows of calories, protein and vital micro-nutrients from …
Ancient communities transformed the Amazon thousands of years ago, farming in a way which has had a lasting impact on the rainforest, a major new study shows. Farmers had a more profound effect on the supposedly "untouched" rainforest than previously thought, introducing crops to new areas, boosting the number of …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that government would construct 570 dams in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions under the one village, one dam project. The Builsa area in the Upper East Region would receive 20 to support all year irrigation activities in the area. He …
To manage crop residue effectively, the Agriculture Department will develop 900 custom-hiring centres across the state. Under this programme, subsidy will be extended to farmers on agricultural implements being used for the management of stubble. This initiative is being taken by the state government under the In-Situ Crop Residue Management …
The larger aim of the team, however, is to curb the secondary pollution caused by crop burning and help farmers earn some additional money from the waste generated from their own land. A team of city-based scientists has come up with a cost-effective way to dispose of crop residue, which …
43,675 people in relief camps; holiday for educational institutions today District administration entrusts deputy collector with coordination of relief operations Sea erosion also reported in battered coastal areas The worst floods to hit in the last two decades have ravaged the Kuttanad region. The floodwater has submerged the entire region …
