Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'agriculture/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/agriculture/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'agriculture/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/agriculture/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=conte&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4675999,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Unseasonal Rainfall,Water Shortage,Waste Management,Water Security,Water Scarcity&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot; title=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=conte&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4675999,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 27947
$metaTitle = &#039;Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Unseasonal Rainfall,Water Shortage,Waste Management,Water Security,Water Scarcity&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot; title=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>agriculture/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Economic Times<br /><br /><em>BENGALURU: </em>To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.<br /><br />About 35,000 farmers across the state's 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won't fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.<br /><br />All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It's being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.<br /><br />&quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&quot; Karnataka's minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.<br /><br />The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.<br /><br />Karnataka's former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&quot;<br /><br />Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.<br /><br />Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.<br /><br />Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em>The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst" title="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst">click here</a> to access&nbsp; </em><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=conte&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4675999,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Unseasonal Rainfall,Water Shortage,Waste Management,Water Security,Water Scarcity&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot; title=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=conte&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4675999,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 27947
$metaTitle = &#039;Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Unseasonal Rainfall,Water Shortage,Waste Management,Water Security,Water Scarcity&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot; title=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>agriculture/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Economic Times<br /><br /><em>BENGALURU: </em>To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.<br /><br />About 35,000 farmers across the state's 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won't fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.<br /><br />All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It's being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.<br /><br />&quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&quot; Karnataka's minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.<br /><br />The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.<br /><br />Karnataka's former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&quot;<br /><br />Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.<br /><br />Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.<br /><br />Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em>The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst" title="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst">click here</a> to access&nbsp; </em><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr68045e8f03743-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr68045e8f03743-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=conte&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4675999,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Unseasonal Rainfall,Water Shortage,Waste Management,Water Security,Water Scarcity&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot; title=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 27947,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=conte&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 22,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4675999,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 27947
$metaTitle = &#039;Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Unseasonal Rainfall,Water Shortage,Waste Management,Water Security,Water Scarcity&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Economic Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BENGALURU: &lt;/em&gt;To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 35,000 farmers across the state&#039;s 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won&#039;t fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It&#039;s being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&amp;quot; Karnataka&#039;s minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka&#039;s former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &amp;quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot; title=&quot;http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;amp;utm_medium=text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=cppst&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>agriculture/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Economic Times<br /><br /><em>BENGALURU: </em>To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.<br /><br />About 35,000 farmers across the state's 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won't fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.<br /><br />All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It's being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.<br /><br />&quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&quot; Karnataka's minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.<br /><br />The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.<br /><br />Karnataka's former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&quot;<br /><br />Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.<br /><br />Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.<br /><br />Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em>The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst" title="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst">click here</a> to access&nbsp; </em><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 27947,
		'title' => 'Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<div align="justify">
-The Economic Times<br />
<br />
<em>BENGALURU: </em>To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.<br />
<br />
About 35,000 farmers across the state's 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won't fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.<br />
<br />
All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It's being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.<br />
<br />
&quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&quot; Karnataka's minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.<br />
<br />
The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.<br />
<br />
Karnataka's former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&quot;<br />
<br />
Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.<br />
<br />
Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.<br />
<br />
Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.<br />
</div>
<div align="justify">
&nbsp;
</div>
<div align="justify">
<em>The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst">click here</a> to access&nbsp; </em><br />
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=conte',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 22,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 4675999,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 27947,
	'metaTitle' => 'Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Unseasonal Rainfall,Water Shortage,Waste Management,Water Security,Water Scarcity',
	'metaDesc' => '
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be...',
	'disp' => '<div align="justify">-The Economic Times<br /><br /><em>BENGALURU: </em>To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.<br /><br />About 35,000 farmers across the state's 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won't fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.<br /><br />All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It's being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.<br /><br />&quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&quot; Karnataka's minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.<br /><br />The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.<br /><br />Karnataka's former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&quot;<br /><br />Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.<br /><br />Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.<br /><br />Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em>The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst" title="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst">click here</a> to access&nbsp; </em><br /></div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 27947,
	'title' => 'Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<div align="justify">
-The Economic Times<br />
<br />
<em>BENGALURU: </em>To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.<br />
<br />
About 35,000 farmers across the state's 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won't fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.<br />
<br />
All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It's being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.<br />
<br />
&quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&quot; Karnataka's minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.<br />
<br />
The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.<br />
<br />
Karnataka's former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&quot;<br />
<br />
Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.<br />
<br />
Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.<br />
<br />
Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.<br />
</div>
<div align="justify">
&nbsp;
</div>
<div align="justify">
<em>The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst">click here</a> to access&nbsp; </em><br />
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=conte',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 22,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains-sowmya-aji-4675999',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 4675999,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 27947
$metaTitle = 'Agriculture | Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji'
$metaKeywords = 'Unseasonal Rainfall,Water Shortage,Waste Management,Water Security,Water Scarcity'
$metaDesc = '
-The Economic Times

BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">-The Economic Times<br /><br /><em>BENGALURU: </em>To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution.<br /><br />About 35,000 farmers across the state's 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won't fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain.<br /><br />All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It's being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September.<br /><br />&quot;The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought,&quot; Karnataka's minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET.<br /><br />The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March.<br /><br />Karnataka's former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: &quot;We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity.&quot;<br /><br />Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.<br /><br />Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years.<br /><br />Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.<br /></div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><em>The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst" title="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/polythene-lined-ponds-to-rescue-farmers-from-unseasonal-rains/articleshow/47105791.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst">click here</a> to access&nbsp; </em><br /></div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Polythene-lined ponds to rescue farmers from unseasonal rains -Sowmya Aji

-The Economic Times BENGALURU: To fend off an agrarian crisis similar to the one sweeping across parts of north India and prevent farmer suicides, Karnataka has begun to implement a scheme to monsoon-proof the farmer that could turn out to be a national solution. About 35,000 farmers across the state's 175 taluks are implementing the pilot programme by setting up polythene-lined water storage ponds in their fields to prevent water seep age and store run-off rainwater. Another 1,750 have opted for more highend poly houses - poly roofs over a section of their farms - to grow exotic vegetables under shade, which will ensure that they won't fall into debt under any circumstances, be it excess or deficit rain. All of them have individual or jointly-owned diesel pumps that will provide micro irrigation (drip irrigation) from the poly ponds for their fields. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has set aside `. 1,000 crore over two Budgets for the programme, dubbed Krishi Bhagya (farm fortune). It's being piloted for the current kharif season that began in April and will go on until September. "The intent is to ensure that the dryland farmer has at least some water to ensure that all their crop is not ruined, either through excess rain or due to drought," Karnataka's minister of state for agriculture, Krishna Byre Gowda, a close associate of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, told ET. The scheme, formulated over three months of consultations with agriculture experts including MS Swaminathan and the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, puts together elements from similar programmes across the country and the world, including watershed programmes from Israel. The details were presented by Gowda to Union rural development minister Birender Singh and union agriculture secretary S Ayyappan in March. Karnataka's former additional chief secretary and development commissioner GV Krishna Rau, who headed the expert committee that drew up the scheme, told ET: "We need to look at agriculture as a business investment with returns, rather than as charity." Rau is currently advisor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu. Karnataka has about 48 lakh land holdings that are solely dependent on rain. Over the last six years, four have been drought years. Gowda explained the poly pond would ensure that some of the runoff from the average 700 mm rain per hectare would be retained and could be used at crucial times to save crops, if the rain fails.   The Economic Times, 30 April, 2015, please click here to access