-ThePrint.in In 5 east UP districts, where rice is primary rain-fed crop, the overwhelming sentiment is despair. For most, planting has been delayed by over a month, which means a drop in yield. Hardoi, Rae Bareli, Barabanki: From a distance, the sight of cattle grazing with abandon in a lush meadow appeared like that default desktop screensaver — a serene landscape spanning over a hundred acres, the deep green of the fields...
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Climate resilient millets boost livelihood opportunities for Odisha’s tribal women -Aishwarya Mohanty
-India.Mongabay.com * Millets are being revived in the state of Odisha, on a large scale under its flagship Odisha Millets Mission. Millets grow well in dry zones as rain-fed crops and are considered low-duty crops. * The revival is helping women farmers in the tribal districts of the state to enhance their livelihood opportunities and become financially independent. * In Mayurbhanj, the third most populous district in Odisha, the number of women farmers...
More »Manipur’s Loktak lake is losing its signature fishing rings. That may not help conserve it -Rokibuz Zaman
-Scroll.in Last month, the government ordered all fishing rings and homestays to be dismantled. It has caused disquiet in the local fishing community. For decades, 59-year-old Oinam Rajen Singh has made a living by fishing in Manipur’s Loktak Lake. The freshwater lake in Bishnupur district is known for its phums, or densely packed, floating masses of soil, vegetation and organic matter. The fishing community, who are mostly Meitei, cut up the phums into...
More »Trouble in the Rice Bowl of Bengal -Gurvinder Singh
-GaonConnection West Bengal is India's top paddy growing state. Bardhaman region in the state, which is known as the rice bowl of Bengal, has received minus 47% deficient rainfall leading to a drastic reduction in paddy sowing. A Gaon Connection ground report as part of its Paddy Pain series. Kalyanpur (East Bardhaman), West Bengal: Dinonath Ghosh, a farmer for more than four decades believes that this must be the worst paddy farming...
More »‘Gap’ in Jharkhand ration claim and reality -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph The activists flagged a reply by the Jharkhand food, and civil supplies department during the monsoon session about payment of food security allowances Jamshedpur: Food security activists in Jharkhand are pained at the difference between the government's claim in the state Assembly on the implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013, and stark realities at the ground level. The activists have flagged a reply by the Jharkhand food, and civil...
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