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 …

Lack of maintenance hits State irrigation projects

The importance of irrigation for development of agriculture sector cannot be underestimated, but unfortunately, as per records available, the State Irrigation Department has so far been able to provide irrigation facilities to less than five percent of the crop land of Assam as a good number of projects of the …

Rs 3760 cr state share in Bundelkhand package

The Bundelkhand Package of Rs 7266 crore sanctioned by the Government of India for the development of Bundelkhand region falling under Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh includes Madhya Pradesh's share of Rs 3760 crore. Of this share, Rs 2160 crore are earmarked for the schemes under implementation from earlier. A …

No extra funds for farm sector in Budget

Despite the agriculture sector reeling under the impact of drought and rising food prices, the government may not provide much additional funds for the farm sector in the Budget for next fiscal as it seems to be wary of a rising fiscal deficit coupled with tepid tax collections. The agriculture …

Low agriculture production could dampen Indias growth story

Recent drought resulting in poor kharif crop production may lead to the farm sector

Water conservation should be supported to face calamities

AK Vishwakarma, water specialist from WALMI, presented different aspects of drought in front of trainees as a type of disaster, while addressing technical session of second-day seminar on Disaster Management organised by volunteer organisation, Science Centre, Gwalior. Vishwakarma further said that water conservation scheme should be supported to face calamities …

Rs 63 cr sanctioned for job-oriented works in drought-hit districts

The state government has sanctioned Rs 63 crore to Panchayat and Rural Development Department to undertake employment-oriented works in 38 districts, which have been affected by drought in the wake of scanty rainfall during 2009-10. Out of these funds, Rs 40 crore has been allocated by the office of Relief …

Postpone poverty survey

Drought Will Skew Poverty Figures WHAT sets poverty in India apart is the effort that has gone into defining, measuring, recalibrating, contesting, recounting, refining and disputing its magnitude, nature and, at least, in the case of one protagonist, existence. This exegesis on poverty has been captured in a World Bank …

Drought: Central team visits Kalahandi...

BHAWANIPATNA: A four-member Central team today toured Kalahandi to assess the quantum of crop loss. The team, led by YS Sharma, conducted a field survey and visited Bhatipada, Kodobhata, Kuliapali, Mahaling, Makraguda and Bordi villages under Kuhura and Mahaling gram panchayats of Golamunda block and interacted with farmers. The team …

Drought team feels the loss is severe

BHUBANESWAR: The 12-member Central team saw for itself the enormity of the drought and crop loss in the State. There has been impact and the loss is significant, the team admitted today after having toured six of the 15 drought-hit districts. The team members, headed by A Purukayasth, Joint Secretary …

The badlands of Bundelkhand

Since the 2007 assembly elections, when Congress won the Jhansi assembly seat, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has been taking a special interest in Bundelkhand. Rahul

Central team coming today

BHUBANESWAR: With half of the districts reeling from drought effect, an inter-ministerial Central team will arrive in Orissa tomorrow for spot assessment of the situation. Led by Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture Atanu Purukayasth, the 10-member team would mostly be visiting western and northern districts of the State …

Bundelkhand to be special area, get more funds

The Centre has decided to declare the entire Bundlekhand region, the theatre of recent Congress-BSP political rivalry, as a

Govt to release drought manual

The government will soon come out with an exhaustive manual for practical management of drought mitigation and relief measures. The drought manual is expected to prove an effective practical guideline for administrators, experts and civil society in implementing drought mitigation and relief measures and for alleviating distress of the drought-affected …

Does gender make a difference in dealing with climate shifts?

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and local Indian institutions in Andhra Pradesh are addressing the gender aspects of coping with climate variability and longterm change within the project Gender-sensitive Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change: Drawing on Indian Farmers

Central team to assess drought conditions

BHUBANESWAR: A central team will visit the State from January 6 to assess the drought situation. The team will tour different areas declared drought affected by the State Government. The Government has submitted a memorandum to the Centre demanding Rs 2,257 crore from the National Calamity Contingency (NCCF) to deal …

Crop cover no relief for drought-hit farmers

With Claims For 2008-09 Crop Year Pending, Wait Gets Longer For The Affected Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI FARMERS covered under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) will have to wait another year to receive their claims despite 316 districts in 13 states being declared drought-hit this year. Close to 50% …

Orissa among five States showing signs of desertification

BHUBANESWAR: Is desertification process in Orissa already on? The answer appears to be yes if one goes by the latest report of Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad that has bracketed Orissa among top five States facing

NRCAF scheme to fight water scarcity in Bundelkhand

Spurred on by clearance of a special package for Bundelkhand region, the National Research Centre for Agro-Forestry (NRCAF) will soon recommend its watershed experiment in the 13 drought-prone districts of the region to tackle water scarcity there. As the problems in Garhkundar-Dabar in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh were identical

Cabinet nod to Rs 7, 266 cr Bundelkhand package

The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a special package worth Rs 7,266 crore for the implementation of a drought mitigation strategy over a three-year period starting 2009-10 for the development of 13 districts in the Bundelkhand region.

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