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 …
Downpours and heatwaves caused by climate change could disrupt food supplies from the fields to the supermarkets, raising the risk of more price spikes such as this year's leap triggered by drought in the United States. Food security experts working on a chapter in a U.N. overview of global warming …
Jaipur: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday inaugurated the free generic veterinary medicines scheme, following which 87 veterinary drugs and 13 surgical consumables would be provided free of cost at the state hospitals from Wednesday onwards. Speaking at the state-level function here, which was attended by hundreds of farmers and …
Punjab will seek a package of Rs 5,000 crore from the Centre for the additional expenditure incurred by farmers on purchasing diesel and Punjab State Power Corporation limited on purchasing power to combat the drought-like conditions in the state. Official sources said the government was ready with a presentation, to …
To press claim before Sharad Pawar today. Chandigarh: Haryana is set to stake claim to a bigger special drought package than its neighbouring Punjab before Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar during his visit to the city tomorrow. Haryana will seek a special drought package of Rs 4,000 crore as against …
Hisar: Widespread rains in the district during the past 24 hours have brought cheer to farmers. The area was lashed by sharp showers twice late last evening. This was followed by widespread persistent rain this evening. According to the Met office, Hisar and its surrounding areas had 38.4 mm rain …
Panel Gives Conditional Approval For D6 Block, Gas Output Set To Rise New Delhi: The oversight panel for India’s showcase gas field off the Andhra coast gave Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP Plc permission to pump over $1 billion into the flagging field, but with the rider that …
The empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on drought, headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, is likely to meet on Thursday to review the drought situation in the country. It will be the second meeting of the EGoM and the first after the weather office officially declared deficient rains this year, …
In a country where about a third of farmland is drought-prone, farmers have started adopting technologies that help mitigate the impact of water scarcity and maximise output with minimum inputs. Micro irrigation is the known technology to save water which has been used successfully by countries like Israel. Despite government …
Conditions In Pacific Moving To A Threshold New Delhi: The puzzle over this year’s truant monsoon may deepen with major forecasters now seeing the conditions in the Pacific approaching a threshold or borderline El Nino event — the weather phenomenon that is seen to cause drier conditions by disrupting the …
NEW DELHI, 3 AUG: Reflecting the gravity of the situation, the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on drought will meet here again on Tuesday, 7 August, to discuss the drought situation in the country and suggest concrete measures to provide immediate relief to the affected states. The panel headed by …
Rural development ministry asks states to identify development projects under flagship MNREGA. The rural development ministry is preparing for a big push to its flagship employment generation programme as drought has depressed demand for farm labour. The ministry has written to state governments asking them to identify development projects under …
Bihar Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh on Thursday said that 25 of 38 Bihar districts are drought-affected. The state government, however, has not officially declared drought in the state. Singh said, “Though there has been good rainfall in some parts of Bihar, most districts have been facing drought because of below …
It has never happened before in the erstwhile princely state of Faridkot. Its thousand-odd jamun trees that would be laden with the fruit every summer have borne none this year. The traditional fruit of Punjab has been severely hit this due to the vagaries of the weather — long winter …
Chandigarh: Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, today announced a contingency plan for farmers grappling with a drought-like situation in the state. A senior PAU official said the rainfall deficit. in Punjab varied between 22 per cent and 93 per cent. The worst hit were Ferozepur and Moga districts with a recorded …
MUMBAI: The central government's recently formed Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought relief identified Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Maharashtra as the worst affected states this year, and released Rs 1,440 crore as immediate aid to these states. The group, which held its first meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday, announced …
Package includes cheaper diesel for irrigation, funds to ensure drinking water The government has stopped short of declaring a drought but rolled out a relief package which includes subsidised diesel for irrigation, funds to ensure drinking water, seed subsidy for resowing crops and augmentation of fodder supply. “The number of …
Centre Announces Subsidy On Diesel, Seeds For Farmers New Delhi: India could be staring at a drought worse than the one it experienced in 2009. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar informed that nearly half of the 624 districts had received deficient rains, another 15% experienced scanty or little rains and …
GOLAGHAT: The paddy fields of Dhansiri subdivision have been parched in recent days due to non-availability of sufficient rainfall. Dhansiri subdivision, which is otherwise wellknown as the granary of Golaghat district where 90% people are farmers, has been adversely affected by a drought like situation, thus creating panic among the …
With rainfall set to be below normal this monsoon and Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan already facing drought-like conditions, the EGoM headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar will meet Tuesday to discuss measures to meet the challenge. Pawar will hold separate meetings with the chief ministers of the four states …
NEW DELHI, 29 JULY: The spectre of drought looms large over major parts of northern and western India following a poor monsoon that has already hit sowing of kharif crops and left farmers and livestock in distress. Shortage of drinking water and an adverse impact on the prices of fruits, …
