-The Hindu Over 53,000 people lose connectivity with nearby towns; paddy crop damaged in E. Godavari SRIKAKULAM/ KAKINADA: With heavy inflows from catchment areas following incessant rains, many rivers, including Vamsadhara, Suvarnamukhi, Nagavali and others have been in spate since Tuesday. It has led to heavy flooding in many mandals, including Palakonda, Burja, Amadalavalasa, SRIkakulam and others. Around 48,500 cusecs of water has been released from Narayanpur Anicut built across Nagavali river in...
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SRI Lanka’s organic farming crisis: Learning from failures -Gurudas Nulkar
-Down to Earth SRI Lanka has found itself in an economic crisis in pursuit of producing 100% organic food ‘Lankan food crisis shows perils of organic farming’. This was the headline of a column by Indian economist Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar column published in a national daily recently. Aiyar’s article analysed the SRI Lankan food crisis, which has been triggered by the President’s recent decision to shift from chemical to organic farming. While the...
More »The dark underbelly of Punjab’s liquor problem -SRIshti Jaswal
-Scroll.in Over 100 people died after consuming illicit liquor in 2020. The police have implicated two brothers, but the trade runs deep in the state’s political economy. On the night of June 23, 2021, the sounds of qawwali rang out from a Sufi shrine in Dhotian, a village in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district. The brutal second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t yet receded, but hundreds were in attendance at the shrine,...
More »What the Q1 GDP numbers say -C Rangarajan and DK SRIvastava
-The Hindu With improved revenues, government must increase expenditures to push consumption and investment India’s GDP data for Q1 of 2021-22 was released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on August 31, 2021. Real GDP growth at 20.1% in Q1 of 2021-22 is largely because of the contraction of 24.4% in the corresponding quarter of the first COVID-19 year, that is, 2020-21. Even with this high growth, the magnitude of real GDP...
More »Rajapaksa’s eco-extremism spells doom for SRI Lankan agriculture and rural livelihoods -R Ramakumar
-Foundation of Agrarian Studies An influential section of SRI Lankan agricultural economists and scientists has deplored the recent course change in the country’s agricultural policy made by the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government. The decision by the government to ban the use and import of chemical fertilisers and pesticides in pursuit of a “100 per cent organic food producer” status for SRI Lanka has already had disastrous consequences for the economy of the...
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