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 …
AMIT GUPTARanchi, Aug. 11: The state administration will submit a memorandum to the Centre seeking assistance of around Rs 2,000 crore in Jharkhand, which is in the throes of a severe drought.This was decided today in a meeting chaired by the governor
Amitabh Sinha Monsoon showers in the last few days have almost completely wiped out the overall rainfall deficit of this season, but entire eastern India continues to reel under an abnormally dry spell and now faces a second successive year of serious drought.As of Wednesday, there is almost 25 per …
New Delhi, Aug. 10: A team of central officials and experts will visit Jharkhand to assess the drought situation, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said in the Lok Sabha today, a day after Raj Bhavan added four names to the existing list of 12 parched districts.Tomorrow, the central team will …
Unsatisfied with the claims of the State Government that there was no drought- like situation anywhere in UP, the members of Samajwadi Party (SP) staged a walk out from the Vidhan Parishad on Tuesday. The SP leaders were not satisfied with government claims on good or satisfactory rains during the …
SUDHIR KUMAR MISHRARanchi, Aug. 9: The water resources department has finalised a proposal to demand Rs 1,727.22 lakh from the National Calamity Relief Fund to restart 152 irrigation projects in the 12 districts that have been declared drought-hit. The aim is to restore these schemes within 60 days.Once these projects …
Jamshedpur, Aug. 9: The forest department has extended a helping hand to the farmers of Pipla and Bhagabandh villages in drought-hit East Singhbhum district under the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a frontal agency fighting hunger worldwide.Recently, the department started a lift irrigation project in both the villages covering …
In an unseemly hurry the state finance minister, Mr Asim Dasgupta, today announced that the state government would declare eight districts drought-affected if there is a rainfall deficit till 15 August which is the deadline for paddy transplantation.The prior announcement which was made apparently to help the farmers put their …
Jamshedpur, July 25: A parched Jharkhand can look forward to some relief in the next two days. The Patna Meteorological Office, which monitors weather conditions in the state, has forecast widespread rainfall over Jharkhand in the next 48 hours.
BHUBANESWAR: Even as a recent report of the Central Employment guarantee council under the Ministry of Rural Development rapped the State Government for poor utilisation of fund in the flagship wage employment scheme under NREGS, there is marked improvement in the fund utilisation in the first quarter of the current …
ANDHRA Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah and his political rival TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu are both playing messiah for the farmers of the state. Mr Naidu on Monday petitioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Capital, seeking the Centre
The total foodgrain production of India during 2009-2010 will touch 218.19 million tonne, down nearly 7 per cent from 234.47 million tonne in 2008-09 session, says the third advance estimates released by the Ministry of Agriculture today. However, there is no need for alarm. The figures only highlight that the …
Despite widespread drought in about 350 districts in 15 states last year, the rabi crop appears to have remained unscathed. In fact, while the wheat output is expected to go marginally up compared to last year, the total foodgrain output is estimated to decline by less than 7 per cent …
Sitting in the front yard of his hut, Babarao Turankar, 50, and his neighbours in Mangi village of south Yavatmal are engaged in deep discussion. Finally, one of them says,
SAMBALPUR: IT was yet another hot and sultry day for the denizens of Sambalpur with the district recording 44.5 degree Celsius today. With the temperatures hovering above 40 degrees in the past some days and the April sun sucking up the water levels, people fear acute water crisis. While the …
Under the National Calamity Contingency Fund, the Finance Ministry has approved Rs 1,200 crore for Punjab and Haryana for providing electricity and water to farmers and saving its paddy crop The Central government will give Punjab Rs 800 crore as reward for the efforts it made to save crop last …
Its still very early days for a monsoon forecast for this season but at least the available signs as of now are all pointing in the right direction. The good news is that a major deficiency in rainfall, as had happened last year, is an extremely remote possibility. Two crucial …
