-Vikalp The paddy cropping and Harvesting season has been concluded and the Rabi crops (mainly wheat) is seeded into the vast agricultural plains of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. The region is known to be highly dependent upon agriculture for livelihood and food security, but it is also known as one of the economically backward-regions of the country. The persistent negligence by the government to develop a mechanised crop procurement system (through Food...
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India Will Be Hard-Pressed to Find Another Anupam Mishra -Himanshu Thakkar
-TheWire.in In November, after a very cogent public speech on India’s rivers, he was completely exhausted and in pain. But that he came anyway showed his dedication. “I need to go and pay respect to the people fighting for India’s rivers” insisted the weak Gandhian, barely able to walk, on November 28. In his speech at the India Rivers Week’s inaugural ceremony on that day, Anupam Mishra, with his characteristically wry humour,...
More »The man who slaked India's thirst -Joydeep Gupta
-TheThirdPole.net Anupam Mishra, who spent three decades fighting for rejuvenation of India’s traditional water Harvesting systems, died on December 19 If many of India’s ponds, wells, stepwells, springs, check dams and other traditional water Harvesting systems are still in working order today, if at least a few of India’s rivers have been revived, much of the credit must go to Anupam Mishra. Through reportage, analysis and advocacy sustained over three decades, this...
More »Odisha farmers go back to barter of labour practice post demonetisation
-PTI KENDRAPARA: With the Harvesting of paddy crop drawing near, the age-old practice of 'Badalia', a system of exchanging labour services prevalent in coastal districts, is showing signs of revival in some pockets of Odisha. A small and marginal farmer like Jugal Kishore Lenka is all set to work in a fellow farmer's plot during Harvesting to cut down his need for cash in the post-demonetisation scenario. Together with Sudam Sahu, a fellow...
More »As if drought weren't bad enough -Marx Tejaswi
-The New Indian Express BALLARI: Demonetisation couldn't have come at a worse time for farmers in Ballari district. November is when they Harvest the kharif crop and sow for rabi. Even as they were coming to terms with the carryover effects of drought and low prices, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pulled a fast one on them. Lepakshi Naidu, a farmer of Hosapete taluk, says demonetization left him with no cash to buy...
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