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 …
Hayleys Group and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will partner in a ground-breaking pilot project to revive and advance the potential for linking farmers in two poorer districts to commercial agriculture, states a US Embassy press release. The six-month pilot project commencing on April 1 will benefit …
Expressing concern over high rate of inflation, the Union Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, said here today that the Government will soon decide whether it should sacrifice a bit of growth to contain inflation. Eight per cent economic growth and four per cent inflation would be the ideal balance. Speaking …
Climate scientists from the UK and India will join hands to study the impact of global warming on crop production in India, where according to studies 10 to 40 per cent of crop production is going to be affected in the near future. Indian scientists working in the field will …
During the last few days, questions and replies in the Assam Assembly relating to the food situation in the State have been a major cause for concern. This is not to suggest that we repose unquestioned faith in the replies and statistics furnished in Assembly or Parliament. But in a …
Could biofuels do more damage to the climate than the fossil fuels they replace? That's the fear casting doubt on the wisdom of a law that from next month will require a certain proportion of vehicle fuel to come from biological sources.
Contrary to the preliminary estimates which indicated that the crops worth Rs 100 crore were damaged in the district due to the recent rains, the official estimates are only showing a loss of around Rs 20 crore. Farmer allege that though crops in more than 40,000 hectare were damaged, the …
I SPENT the first 12 years of my life in a poor, dusty and backward village of undivided Punjab. I still have vivid recollection of life in that village. We had no sanitation, no drinking water, no electricity, no schools, no doctors. I had to trek a long distance to …
In Vidarbha, many farmers will not benefit from the waiver because they possess over two hectares of land. Above, Durpata Bhalerao Ataram, whose husband committed suicide in 2007. DURPATA BHALERAO ATARAM'S land is no longer an asset. It seems like a burden. She has 10 acres of it, but no …
The judgment one reaches on what the current year's Budget will do for farmers will vary depending on whether its provisions are seen as a sui generis exercise or are viewed within a longer term perspective that encompasses an awareness of the continuing and relentless drive to implement neoliberal policies …
The agricultural loan waiver valued at Rs.60,000 crore announced in Budget 2008-09 has dominated discussions on the Budget. Coming after four years of conservative reformism, in the midst of an agrarian crisis marked by farmers' suicides, this sudden decision to provide relief to an indebted farming community has been interpreted …
Crop cultivation on 8,000 acres of land are hampering due to lack of irrigation as power lines of 130 deep tube wells remained disconnected at different parts in Baghmara upazila. Thousands of farmers have become unnerved with their crops for want of irrigation water. Local farmers have already submitted written …
Biofuels are not only hurting poor consumers in Asia by driving up crop prices, they are also failing to help the region's farmers who have not been able to adapt their production to cash in on the boom, a United Nations report said on Thursday.
Projecting an economic growth of 9 per cent for India in 2008-09, a United Nations report has said the need of the hour is to address the neglect of agriculture to bring millions out of poverty. The public policy should adopt a two-pronged approach for the purpose, taking in account …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $450 million for 'Punjab Irrigated Agricultural Development Sector Project (PIADSP)' from its Ordinary Capital Resources and Asian Development Fund during 2008-11, which is a major project that will require significant institutional change at the farmers, regional and provincial levels to enable the full …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the creation of a Farmers' Debt Relief Fund with an initial corpus of Rs.10,000 crore. This is to set in motion the Rs.60,314-crore loan waiver scheme aimed at mitigating the hardships of three crore small and marginal farmers, and others numbering one crore. For …
The Union Cabinet today approved the farmers' debt relief fund with an initial corpus of Rs 10,000 crore. The scheme, for small farmers, was announced in the Budget. The fund will be enhanced by Rs 15,000 crore in 2008-09, Rs 15,000 crore in 2009-10, Rs 12,000 crore in 2010-11 and …
The monetary value of crops gnawed away by rodents last year has been estimated as Rs 67,201.98 lakhs, the Assembly was informed today. The rodent population proliferated as a result of gregarious bamboo flowering (Mautam). In his reply to Congress member R Lalzirliana, Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Minister K Sangthuama …
From the cosy confines of Dispur, it is not possible to feel the worries of farmers or even appreicate their yield. That was the message that Asom Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma today seemed to be sending across to the MLAs when she asked them to take the trouble of …
To study the effects of pollution on road side paddy fields, three paddy fields situated at Kuttikkulam, Elamankulam and Rajathanthirikkulam near National Highway-47 passing through Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu and a control paddy field far away from National Highway 47 in Kuttikkulam area which was free from highway run-off …
It's time for the government to reconsider its anti-poverty programmes. The subsidies can readily finance generous direct cash transfers, vouchers for primary education, and health insurance for the poor, says Arvind Panagariya. THERE has been much confusion on the implications and desirability of the loan waiver programme announced by finance …
