Droughts

Women paying the cost of the climate crisis with their wombs: quantifying loss and damage faced by women battling drought, debt and migration

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 …

NREGS fund utilisation up

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 …

Rosaiah, Naidu rise to farmers plight

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

Foodgrain produce dips by 7 per cent

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 last years drought, wheat stands its ground

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 …

Vidarbha on the verge of water riots

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,

Water, a mirage in Jamankira

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 …

Heavy Himalayan snowfall cause of drought in India

Reading University Study Explains Reason For Poor Monsoon London: Reading University, one of UK

State gets Rs 800 cr for not declaring drought last season

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 …

Good news: two crucial monsoon indicators moving in positive direction

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 …

Ships give way to camels as Aral turns dead sea

Nukus (Uzbekistan): The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet

Meeting over Bundelkhand package today

The Centre will on Tuesday hold a high-level meeting to finalise the implementation of the Rs 7277 crore Bundelkhand package announced earlier by the Government. The Union Rural Development Ministry, meanwhile, is all set to launch a pilot project in all the 13 districts of the Bundelkhand region to showcase …

Food Bill gets stuck over BPL definition, up for fresh scrutiny

Even as the Congress denied that there was a disconnect between the party and the government on the Food Security Bill, party leader and Defence Minister A K Antony and Rural Development Minister C P Joshi stood out in pushing Congress

Rs 79.28 cr relief for farmers

The Haryana government has allocated a sum of over Rs 79.28 crore for payment of relief to farmers of Bhiwani and Hisar districts whose Rabi crops-2008 were damaged due to drought. As per a letter to this effect issued by Naresh Gulati, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Revenue and Disaster …

36 tehsils declared drought-hit

The State Government has recognised 36 tehsils as drought affected on the basis of norms laid down by it. For wide information to general public the Revenue Department has published a notice in this regard. Principal Secretary (Revenue) Madan Mohan Upadhyay has issued instructions to publish the notification in the …

UP all set to have automatic weather stations

Uttar Pradesh (UP) is all set to acquire automatic weather stations equipped with sensors thereby making weather forecasting farmer friendly. The unique facility will be put to use for the first time in India on the lines of Australia and USA. These automatic weather stations will be established by UP …

Govt refuses to accept famine theory

The Shibu Soren government today admitted that the drought scenario was critical, but refused to declare the state famine-hit. It, however, agreed to make efforts to improve irrigation facilities and provide foodgrain to the poor to prevent starvation deaths. The Opposition consequently staged a walkout. State agriculture minister Mathura Prasad …

Amazon forests did not green?up during the 2005 drought

The sensitivity of Amazon rainforests to dry?season droughts is still poorly understood, with reports of enhanced tree mortality and forest fires on one hand, and excessive forest greening on the other. Here, we report that the previous results of large?scale greening of the Amazon, obtained from an earlier version of …

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