The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
Bolangir district in Orissa, facing drought conditions since 1965, sees an annual mass migration of farmers to other States in search of work. SURESH GOHIR of Bhotapada village in the backward Bolangir district of Orissa consumed pesticide two years ago after his paddy crop failed. He survived the suicide attempt …
Kolkata: An eight-member central team, headed by joint-secretary in the agriculture ministry EK Majhi, on Wednesday held a meeting with West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and finance minister Asim Dasgupta to get a first-hand report on the drought situation in the state. The team also held talks with state …
Vocal actors within policy and practice contend that environmental variability and shocks, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, drive civil wars in Africa. Recently, a widely publicized scientific article appears to substantiate this claim. This paper investigates the empirical foundation for the claimed relationship in detail. Using a host …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Even though the West Bengal government is yet to confirm that suicides by farmers in Ausgram block of Bardhaman district are drought-related, with the third incident of a farmer killing himself, district authorities admitted on Thursday that they were
This document on the management of drought during 2009 published by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture presents the deficiency & erratic behaviour of rainfall, impact of drought, mitigation efforts initiated and their results. Agriculture in India is predominantly dependent on rains and the rainfall …
The rain god is certainly not smiling on the eastern states. After West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand — all of them have been hit by deficient rainfall — Orissa is also contemplating to seek drought assistance from the central government if monsoon rains do not return within the next seven …
Namrata Acharya / Bankura (west Bengal) August 25, 2010, 1:43 IST West Bengal finds drought has gripped 11 of its 18 districts. The state, one of the country’s largest rice producers, has received 30 per cent less rainfall so far, which has turned the otherwise lush landscape into parched patches, …
Russia's agriculture industry faces losses of over one billion dollars after a record drought destroyed over a quarter of its crops, an official said yesterday. "The losses amount to about 32.7 billion rubles (1.07 billion dollars)," Deputy Agriculture Minister Alexander Petrikov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. …
Paschim Medinipur district is the worst affected by the drought that has hit 11 districts of West Bengal, said Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee after a meeting with officials in Midnapore on Monday.Mr. Bhattacharjee, who has been visiting some of the drought-hit districts in south Bengal over the past three days, …
New Delhi: The government is developing a uniform set of scientific criteria for declaring drought in any part of the country to overcome the problems arising out of divergent parameters used by different states.At present there is no uniformity in the criteria for declaring drought and each state adopts different …
Kolkata: The West Bengal Government on Friday geared up to tackle the situation in the 11 drought-hit districts hit by cancelling leave of certain department staff and more than doubling the allocation that it had announced on Monday. Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta announced that Rs.115 crore was being allocated to …
Local communities are creatively adapting traditional knowledge to cope with climate change Keya Acharya / August 21, 2010, 0:41 IST In some remote villages in India, which are most unlikely to pose as models of development, a quiet rejuvenation is taking place, with communities learning to adapt to the climate …
KOLKATA: In a bid to protect the livelihoods of scores of farmers in West Bengal's 11 drought-affected districts, a team of agricultural scientists is set to arrive in the State, visit all the drought-hit areas and distribute seeds for alternate crops after conducting soil tests. Central Agricultural Commissioner Gurbachan Singh, …
Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.
Shoumojit BanerjeePatna: In the wake of an alarmingly deficient monsoon, Bihar Chief Minister Mr. Nitish Kumar has declared the remaining 10 districts in the State also
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday announced the entire state as drought affected by adding ten more districts left from the list of 28 affected districts and said his government would use its own resources for relief if the Centre ignored its calls for a Rs 5,062-crores special package. …
Ananya DuttaKOLKATA: The threat of a drought looms over several parts of West Bengal because of inadequate rainfall which could have serious repercussions on paddy production, Minister for Agriculture Naren Dey said here on Thursday.
