As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
Greenhouse gas emissions rise when economies expand but don't fall as quickly when recession strikes, perhaps because people stick with a higher-emitting lifestyle from the boom times, a study showed. The report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Climate Change dents many governments' hopes that recession can at least …
Chandigarh: The Centre on Sunday rejected Punjab’s charge that it was “deliberately denying” the state a drought-relief package in the wake of deficient monsoon rains. “There is no such thing. There is no truth in this,” Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh told PTI in Mohali on the sidelines of …
Compensatory production plan strategizes enhanced production in the normally sown rabi and special boro/summer season crops particularly in the flood prone areas. High rainfall and better soil moisture during the extended terminal part of the rainy season 2012 provides ample opportunities to improve productivity in the rainfed region. Overall, 84 …
Recently, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar had said that the gap in sowing area is wide in drought-affected states and production of coarse cereals and pulses is expected to be lower than last year. The government is finding it difficult to meet the foodgrain production target for the current kharif season …
The meeting of the Cauvery River Authority, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and attended by the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, on Wednesday failed to resolve the water sharing row between the states with both refusing to accept the PM’s final ruling. While Karnataka CM Jagdish Shettar …
Jaisalmer: Rajasthan’s desert region has gone from grey to green in little more than a month. In a dramatic late surge in the monsoon here, the threat of drought that loomed large over the region in mid-August has given way to gushing rivers and water bodies filled to the brim …
Rural development ministry, state representatives to review labour budgets next month Drought-hit states will get more money to meet increased demand for jobs from affected farmers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act (MGNREGA). Rural development ministry officials will meet state government representatives next month to review labour …
Rain-deficient Punjab and Haryana will perhaps have to work harder to attract Centre’s attention to monetary losses it suffered due to an errant monsoon this year. The Sharad Pawar-led Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has allocated Rs 37.2 crore to Punjab and Rs 115.47 crore to Haryana under the National …
With 99 districts across five states — Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan — having already been declared hit by drought this year, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday decided to provide 5 per cent interest rebate for crop loans that will …
Lenders are offering term loans to livestock owners in drought-affected Gujarat ATMADIP RAY & SUTANUKA GHOSAL KOLKATA Banks areembracing a new source of business in Gujarat — fodder, as drought hits supplies to cattle, leading to a steady climb in milk prices. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development …
The project will disseminate weather-related inputs to farmers to improve land productivity and boost crop output About 50,000 farmers in ten districts of Maharashtra are expected to benefit from a pilot project, which will disseminate weather-related inputs using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve land productivity and boost crop …
It's a season that inspires and engages everyone, from the farmer to the policy maker. From the scientist to the travel writer. From the economist to the music critic, and from the botanist to the epicure. In a year in which the monsoon has played truant, Down To Earth invited …
After the Centre rejected Maharashtra’s Rs3,500-crore drought aid, the state government will make a fresh assessment of the drought-hit villages. Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar told DNA on Tuesday: “We will rework the drought package in September based on ground situation in every village. We will follow the Centre’s guidelines …
The experience of the last two decades is a testimony to the growing clout of the corporate sector to gain control over natural resources of the country. Privatisation of water will be very quick and easy if water is transferred from the State List to the Concurrent List In view …
The state government has demanded 88,000 metric tonnes of food grains from the Centre as part of the drought mitigation plans, as the government suspects that productivity will be hampered to a large extent this kharif season due to drought. The state government claimed that it was confident that the …
Move aimed at ensuring banks’ credit supply, reducing cost of lending to the sector in view of rising farm bad loans and drought-like situation in many states DHEERAJ TIWARI NEW DELHI Rise in bad loans in the farm sector has been worsened by a droughtlike situation in some states, prompting …
Sure, the rains are picking up, but droughts will strike again. How the govt can boost incomes of farm help to enable them to face a drought better — in the short, medium and long term. John Samuel Raja D reports. The rains are picking up, but still the latest …
Paddy growers claim input cost has risen by Rs 3,000 per acre due to the weak monsoon Amritsar: With rain remaining elusive in Majha this monsoon, paddy growers have been struggling to save their crop. The frequent power crisis has only added to their woes. The worst affected are the …
The severity of the worst US drought in 56 years may be peaking, while its effects on corn and soya beans, the nation’s two biggest crops, may not be known until the harvests, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. The steadying of weather conditions may limit food inflation next year, which …
MUMBAI: According to estimates, at least one-fifth of Maharashtra is now drought-hit. Rains continue to be over 50% deficient in 64 out of 355 talukas. This has resulted in less than 50% sowing in these talukas, leading to a drought crisis. While the state will now approach the Centre to …
