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 …
Actual loss suffered by farmers is much higher, says K.P. Rajendran The State Government is making preparations to submit a summer rain damage account of around Rs. 222 crore, prepared as per Central Relief Norms, to the Union Government-deputed team that will reach Kerala on April 3. Revenue Minister K. …
Q. We need to create true fiscal and monetary federalism in this country. Do you have any ideas in this direction? Chidambaram: There are one thousand schemes and programmes which are funded by the Centre. It has come as a big revelation. We are now putting in place a Central …
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, in his famous speech at Avadi near Chennai in 1955, spelt out the conditions for inclusive growth. He asked and I ask the same question
Focus on agriculture to reduce poverty In the last decade, developing economies in Asia and the Pacific doubled in size, growing over 7 per cent on average. This growth has garnered much attention and plaudits. Yet, 641 million of the world's poorest
Output Not Growing Any More, Per Capita Production Down To 70s Levels. Surging foodgrain prices and worsening global supplies are now bringing the domestic food crisis to the boil. The crisis has been building up for some time
The Agriculture Ministry plans to cultivate 400,000 hectares in the 2008 Yala season due to favourable weather conditions for paddy cultivation. According to estimates, 1,750,000 bushels of seed paddy are required to cultivate this 400,000 hectares in the next Yala season, a Ministry spokesman told the Daily News yesterday. The …
Chronic neglect of the agricultural sector in Asia and the Pacific is condemning 218 million people to continuing extreme poverty, and widening the gap between the region's rich and poor, according to the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008, which was released in multiple locations, including …
Much of what Indian agriculture is today is due to the work of state agriculture universities and deemed agriculture university like the Delhi-based Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI). The work for ushering in green revolution in the country began in 1960s with the support of the US Land Grant Universities …
The Centre has earmarked an amount of Rs 102.89 crore for Asom under the Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) for the year 2008-09, with the major allocation made for buying tractors and irrigation. While informing this at a press conference here today, State Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma said that …
The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, on Sunday called for restructuring the country's agricultural system in a new format to increase production of food grains and ensure food security. Referring to recent undesirable scenario of the world food production, he said in the changed situation it was clearly understood that the …
There is an indifferent attitude, almost of a colonial type, in the mainland of India towards NE. This needs to be changed through an arrangement so as to remove the feeling of alienation that afflicts the psyche of the NE people and thus to save the integrity of the country. …
The authorities were spending Rs 2 crore for the development of horticulture in Prakasam district, said Mr M. Venkateswarlu, additional director of horticulture, here on Sunday. Speaking to this newspaper, he said that they were also operating a horticultural training institute at the district headquarters to give the latest technology …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today expressed his reservations to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh about proposals on the contentious issue of river-water sharing, saying these could generate a fresh controversy. He also apprised the PM that the forthcoming paddy crop would suffer if the Centre does not …
Coming right out of the agrarian crisis that has rocked their homeland, six farmers from Vidarbha, the eastern region of Maharashtra which has been in the spotlight for a spate of farmer suicides in recent years, think their brethren in Tamil Nadu have a good thing going. Dilip Jagtap, Vinayak …
The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture has hailed the announcement of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to increase the support price of wheat from Rs510 per 40 kg to Rs625, but expressed concern over the inordinate increase in prices of fertiliser, diesel and seed. It urged the government to release water …
Punjab being the highest contributor of agriculture produce, remained the main beneficiary of agricultural loans with Rs 75.6 billion out of overall disbursement of some Rs 90 billion during the first half of current fiscal year. The State Bank of Pakistan on Saturday released district-wise data of agricultural credit disbursement …
FOR India, the crash in global commodity prices comes as an answer to a prayer. Import of wheat, cooking oil and pulses are now likely to be cheaper as speculators and large funds exit positions in New York and Chicago over the last fortnight. The best part is that those …
QUESTIONING the UPA government's commitment to farmers and the revival of the agricultural sector, the BJP said that the Rs 60,000 crore loan waiver was a
High concentrations of chlorine being used to purge salmonella from a southern Colorado town's water system were expected to drop far enough Saturday that residents could use the water for showering. The disinfection process in Alamosa began Tuesday, five days after officials confirmed the presence of the bacteria in the …
Lack of buying interest, inadequate storage spaced cited as reasons for the fall in prices. Post-harvest, potato prices have gone down sharply this year in the main growing areas, especially in West Bengal. The price of the
