Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Nabin Kisan Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to discharge of wastewater by the municipality of Belpahar on the applicants land. The affidavit filed by the District Magistrate, Jharsuguda, May 14, …
Bhola Singh is dead... Bhola Singh was a farmer from village Balloh, district Bhatinda, Punjab. He is part of a story with a beginning and an end. But it has no middle. Thus what follows is a fragment. But it is not fiction. Punjab practices intensive agriculture that needs pesticides. …
indian farmers are neck-deep in debt. Of the 89.35 million farmer households in the country, 43.42 million (48.6 per cent) are reeling under the yoke, says a recent survey report of the National Sample Survey Organisation (nsso), under the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation. The report was released …
Having known the export potential of vanilla Spices Board during IX plan took up a programme to popularize the crop in Kerala and Karnataka. As a result by the end of the plan period about 320 hectares were brought under cultivation. The programme was extended with a targeted area of …
paddy farmers in Kerala's Alappuzha district have locked horns with the state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (ntpc) over the sharing of Achanakovil River water. The farmers of Veeyapuram, Haripad and Pallippad panchayats in the district's upper Kuttanad area recently held protests complaining that a check-dam built on the river at …
over 644 farmers of Maharashtra, chiefly in Vidharbha, Marathwada and Khandesh regions, committed suicide between March 2001 and December 2004, according to a report submitted on March 16, 2005 to the Bombay High Court (hc) by Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (tiss). The hc had appointed tiss a consultant …
Nigeria's Adamawa state recently witnessed a weeklong fierce battle between nomadic herdsmen and farmers. In the deadliest of these clashes, ethnic Fulani herdsmen attacked the farming village of Bali, killing 28 people. At least 30 people were killed in all. "Farmers in the area complain that cattle graze on their …
the new Veeranam Extension Project, envisaged to supply drinking water to the Chennai Metropolitan area from six proposed collector wells in the Kollidam (Colleron) riverbed, has evoked strong protests from farmers of villages situated on the river's banks. They fear the project will increase their water woes. The Rs 300 …
• Transnational corporations (TNCs) control the price of commodities in a way that farmers get less for their produce. For instance, TNCs reduced the price of bananas for consumers from
Brazilian farmers, who have already caused considerable monetary loss to Monsanto Company, have given another blow to the agrochemical giant. Following a recent court order, the Cooperativa Triticola Mista Campo Novo, a group of about 8,700 farmers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, will not pay royalty to …
Prem Chand Goyal, proprietor, BR Oil Mills in Bharatpur, Rajasthan is usually quite a phlegmatic character. But any talk of his trade is enough to ruffle his placid exterior. "My unit can crush 1,000 sacks of mustard seeds every day, but it is functioning at only half its capacity,' he …
in a move that will benefit Punjab farmers tremendously, the Multi Commodity Exchanges of India Ltd (mcx) and the Punjab State Cooperative Supply & Marketing Federation (Markfed) have collaborated to provide them with the option to get into futures contracts for wheat. A futures contract is an exchange-traded contract that …
in madhya Pradesh (mp), the Indian Tobacco Company (itc) has been buying foodgrains directly from farmers. On December 12, traders operating in mandis (wholesale foodgrain markets) all over mp went on an indefinite strike in protest against this practice, saying it would make them redundant and even wipe out the …
the much-awaited report of the Commission on Farmers' Welfare (cfw), constituted by the government to study the agrarian crisis and suicides by farmers in Andhra Pradesh, has indicted both the Union and the state governments. Presenting the report to chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy on December 11, 2004, in …
After two-and-a-half months of protest and six farmer deaths, the kisan Sangharsh Samiti (kss), a farmers' group in Sriganganagar district, Rajasthan, has called off its agitation. kss was protesting about the lesser water they felt they were allocated via the Indira Gandhi Canal (igc) this year. Apparently, "all' of their …
Unique coast guard: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) is working for the formation of a monitoring and liaison committee to improve the dismal environmental condition in the islands off the Karachi coast and check the unhindered discharge of effluents into the sea. SEPA director general Shafiq Khuso says the …
although stories of suicides by farmers and weavers in Andhra Pradesh have been relegated to the inside pages of local newspapers, the scourge continues to haunt the state. The 13-member Commission on Farmers' Welfare, constituted to study the agrarian crisis, has started touring the districts. Economist Jayati Ghosh, who heads …
One day in September this year, Rama Bhadraiah had a windfall. This small cola supplier in village Nadikude in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district sold 50 crates of nine bottles each. Elsewhere, in village Bhaisra in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district, Kishan Katlam
Ghana is a major producer of cocoa in the world and relies heavily on the crop for foreign exchange revenue. However, production declined since the mid-1960s, reaching its lowest level in 1983. Although production has increased consistently since the mid-1980s, it still is less than the level attained in the …
An acute crisis has hit farmers and fisherfolk in Ecuador's Manabi province, around the us military's Manta air force base. The latter got to use the area for 10 years in 1999 to control drug trafficking. But security measures Ecuador enforced to protect us soldiers are proving too expensive for …
