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 …
Popular demand: Mr. George Thomas of Kozhikode seen harvesting the mushrooms. The problems are increasing: labour shortage, spiralling costs of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, difficulty in marketing, and absence of proper guidelines in price fixation for harvested produce. So, farmers are desperate to ensure minimum and sustained income from crops …
Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo urged the newly-elected government on Thursday to appoint an international and impartial commission of water experts to help solve the perennial dispute among provinces over share in water in accordance with international laws and norms. Mr Palijo who also heads the Sindh Water Committee …
Twelve more debt ridden farmers committed suicide in the last 24 hours in Vidharba. According to the Vidharba Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS), a voluntary organisation working for the benefit of farmers in the region, among the 12 farmers who ended their lives, were four from Amravati, two each from Yavatmal, …
The annual district credit plan projected finance to crop loans to the tune of Rs 1,014.60 crore for 2008-09. Of this, the ambitious plan allocated Rs 659.49 crore to kharif season and Rs 335.11 crore to rabi season. The district Collector Sandeep Kumar Sultania unveiled the district credit plan with …
Rice production in the State is dwindling. Though there was a fluctuating trend between 2003-04 and 2005-06 in its production, the output of the item showed a sharp decline during 2006-07. Minister for Agriculture Pramila Rani Brahma stated this while replying to a question of Mission Ranjan Das (BJP) in …
The modest potential of dry farming in vast areas, will add to a substantial overall growth. Our farmers seem to be in distress. Except for a few well to do ones, most of them find their life as farmers miserable. They find it increasingly difficult to make both ends meet, …
Acquisition rates have to be responsive to give armers a good information environment With growth, decline in agricultural workforce, literacy and migration, India's urbanisation will increase and require acquisition and "conversion' of land for urban and commercial use. This acquired land will not always be barren land, forests, swamps or …
Two debt-ridden farmers allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves in two separate incidents in the district, police said on Tuesday. Shrikrishna Kalamb, 48, took the extreme step on Monday, after being fed up with constant crop failure and mounting debts, according to the suicide note seized by the police.
A Central team will soon visit Tamil Nadu to assess the damage to the standing crop and property loss caused by the unusual rain that lashed several southern districts, M.K. Stalin, Minister for Local Administration and Rural Development said in Mudukaluthur on Tuesday. During his tour of flood-hit areas in …
B R Hills (Karnataka): Hitting out at those who criticised the UPA Government's Rs 60,000 crore loan waiver for farmers, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said questions were not raised when industrialists defaulted on loans. "When one spends one rupee for the poor, everybody asks why we are spending …
State government's attempt to acquire land at Nandigram for a proposed Chemical hub may have witnessed enough bloodshed forcing the chief minister to abandon land acquisition plans there, but the Assembly standing com-mittee on Commerce and Industries today claimed that the people of Nandigram are not against industrialisation provided it …
: State agriculture minister, Mr Naren Dey today said that though a potato farmer had committed suicide in the state, it is yet to be established whether financial distress, due to a bumper potato produce this season, had driven the farmer to commit suicide. Replying to a question in the …
Representative organisations of farmers' community have urged the new government to reduce interest rate on agricultural loans from 16 percent to five percent. Kisan Board Pakistan and Agri-Forum Pakistan leaders also urged government to make agricultural research more effective, double funds and open the doors of research institutes 24 hours …
UNION home minister Shivraj Patil is not in favour of allowing the use of agricultural land for setting up special economic zones (SEZs). "Land which is good for agriculture should not be acquired for SEZs as far as possible. No irrigable land should be acquired and only barren land should …
The farm loan waiver is the least the government can do to begin the process of healing the farm sector. It must be clearly understood that as against mismanaged industries in private hands that are routinely bailed out by huge debt write offs, the farmers have not created the farm …
The agriculture department organised a training programme for farmers regarding conservation of irrigation water and lining of watercourses at Thekratho, Sukkur district. According to an official handout issued here on Tuesday, the training programme was attended by a large number of growers from Pano Akil, Rohri and Salehpat talukas. Speaking …
A Central team will visit Kerala later this week to make an on-the-spot assessment of the damage caused to standing crop by the rains that lashed the State over the past week, killing 14 people. This was disclosed here on Monday by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Union Agriculture …
The agriculture department has embarked on a plan to upgrade the skills of the existing Adarsha Rythulu (ideal farmers) and expand the network. The department has drawn up plans to recruit another 1,300 ideal farmers soon. As part of this, the department has launched a six-day training programme for 657 …
