-The Telegraph New Delhi: A non-government organisation has come up with a raft of ideas to reform the judicial system, saying unless things were speeded up it would take at least a hundred years to dispose of the current backlog of three crore cases. The suggestions from the Children's Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP) came in representations the NGO made to Chief Justice of India (CJI) H.L. Dattu and Union law...
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Kerala scientists develop saltwater-tolerant paddy -T Nandakumar
-The Hindu Genes tolerant to salinity and iron toxicity were put into another variety Scientists at the Rice Research Station of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) at Vyttila have developed a new variety of paddy tolerant to saline intrusion, a major challenge faced by farmers in the lowlands. The landmark achievement in rice research was made possible by the introduction of genes tolerant to salinity and iron toxicity into Jyothi, Kerala’s most popular rice...
More »Millions of farmers don’t have safeguards against climate change impact -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times The impact of climate change on India’s agriculture is more evident than ever before, but millions of small and marginal farmers do not have adequate safeguards, said a study released on Friday. The country’s farm sector is considered highly vulnerable to shifts in weather patterns as half of the cropland is dependent on rainfall, drawing around 60% of the farmers to the core of the climate-proofing debate. Climate change increases frequency...
More »Farm diStress: Centre wants states to properly implement its irrigation schemes -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With back to back drought years putting farmers under tremendous Stress, the Centre believes it's effort to bolster irrigation infrastructure and disburse relief to farmers after extreme weather events are falling short thanks to some states dragging their feet. Union agriculture ministry in its periodic review of these schemes found many states not up to the mark with minister Radha Mohan Singh asking them to pull...
More »Rural diStress: Droughts in food bowl likely to push farmers to cities -Komal Amit Gera
-Business Standard Drop in wheat acreage evidence of Stress in agriculture Chandigarh: Two consecutive drought years have led to rural diStress in the food bowl states. At some places, this has become even worse due to the attack of the white pest. Sahiblal Shukla, a farmer in Chitrakut in Uttar Pradesh , who has spent his lifetime in ploughing fields says that, “farmers in Bundelkhand area of the state may soon pack their...
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