-The Indian Express Punjab has not missed the monsoon. Despite rainfall being nearly 60 per cent deficient — there has been some this week — the Paddy fields have remained lush green all through the season. But below, the water table in over 80 per cent of Punjab is depleting. Of 138 hydrogeological blocks, over 100 are listed as dark or grey zones due to over-exploitation of underground water, with the average...
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Nagri still in gridlock-Suman K Shrivastava
-The Telegraph Ranchi, Sept. 2: The state government is expected to cut a sorry figure before Jharkhand High Court tomorrow when it presents the status of construction of three educational institutions in Nagri. The court, while hearing the case on August 6, had granted the state time till September 2 to begin construction of National University for Study and Research in Law (NUSRL), IIM-Ranchi and IIIT campuses at the spot, which advocate...
More »Paddy cultivation on the way out in Punjab, Haryana? -Gargi Parsai
-The Hindu Centre mulling alternative crops The Union Government is looking at the possibility of replacing rice crop in Punjab and Haryana with alternative crops such as pulses, fodder and oilseeds that help in nitrogen fixation. The water-intensive rice cultivation over the years has become unsustainable in these two States and the water table has fallen to precarious levels. Giving this information to members of Parliament’s Consultative Committee for his Ministry, Agriculture Minister...
More »Chhattisgarh eliminates farmer suicides by fudging death data -Supriya Sharma
-The Times of India RAIPUR: The sky is overcast, the fields lush with Paddy. A good harvest beckons and to complete the picture of a rural idyll, Chhattisgarh has posted 'zero' farmer suicides for 2011. For a state that has consistently reported the highest rate of farmer suicides in India, with 1,773 cases in 2008; 1,802 in 2009; and 1,126 in 2010, eliminating farmer suicides would be a thundering achievement. But...
More »How it prevents farmers from going to seed-PV Srividya
-The Hindu “Direct sowing is the way out in times of delayed water release and scarcity’’ As acres and acres of untilled land dot the tail-end of the Delta this year, there lays a tilled stretch of some 20 acres in Madapuram in Thiruthuraipoondi, bordering Nagapattinam, in the first and the only rains that lashed a few days ago. Seventy-six-year-old Oysul Karunai awaits the second spell to re-till his fields and broadcast the...
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