-The Hindu Business Line How ‘Protected Cultivation' can help prevent crop damage due to national disasters While the first green revolution managed to make the nation self sufficient the next round of reforms certainly needs to address the problems faced by today's farmers. According to statistics available on Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India reaped a record foodgrain production of 259.32 million tonnes (mt) in 2011-12. However, the output fell to 257.13...
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Drinking water shortage to hit Maharashtra as drought worsens -Aparna Pallavi
-Down to Earth In the Vidarbha region which is facing 30 per cent rainfall deficit in the first half the monsoon, the situation is very grim The drought in Maharashtra is worsening. With 15 talukas just declared drought-hit, 136 out of a total 355 talukas in the state are now officially reeling under drought. They have received rainfall that is less than 50 per cent of average in the state. Moreover, 15 districts...
More »Will 2014 be a drought year? -Nikita Mehta and Remya Nair
-Live Mint Half of the country by area has received deficient or scanty rainfall in the south-west monsoon season so far this year New Delhi: Half of the country by area has received deficient or scanty rainfall in the south-west monsoon season so far this year, and some experts are veering around to the view that 2014 will be India's first drought year since 2009. Overall, rainfall has fallen 18-20% short of...
More »Karnataka Running Out of Fodder, Its Livestock May Face Starvation South -Radhika Iyer
-NDTV Tumkur (Karnataka): At a goshala or shelter for cows run by a private trust in Southern Karnataka's Tumkur district, its caretaker Suresh has an unenviable job. He has been instructed to serve only two portions of fodder, not the requisite meal of at least 3-5 kilograms of dry grass per day. "The smaller ones fight among themselves and they scream. Sometimes there is not enough water. I feel sad leaving...
More »Ashok Gulati, former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, and at present chair professor agriculture, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, speaks with Sandip Das
-The Financial Express From allocating extra foodgrains to states as a means to fight the price rise to setting up a high-level committee to recommend measures for restructuring the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the government has taken various steps for cutting down food subsidy and curbing further spike in agricultural commodity prices. From allocating extra foodgrains to states as a means to fight the price rise to setting up a high-level...
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