-Down to Earth Arun Shah, a Muzaffarpur-based paediatrician who has researched on the syndrome, says the fruit is only a triggering factor for malnourished children Litchi is being most commonly blamed for the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) outbreak in Bihar. The mystery fever has already killed more than 100 children in Muzaffarpur district, renowned for its litchi crop. However, experts say it is grossly wrong to blame this fruit Down To Earth spoke...
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Marathwada: Zero rabi crop, bone dry wells, serial hunger strikes in despair -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express More than half the villages where the state Groundwater Survey and Development Agency’s summer survey found a depletion of over 3 metres from the five-year average are in Marathwada — 1,467 villages. Beed (Maharastra), Mumbai: Twice over the last six months, residents of Chaklamba village in Beed district’s Georai taluka have gone on a relay hunger strike in 43-degree temperatures, spending scorching afternoons in the shade of a...
More »Nearly 60% of Vidarbha's orange orchards dead due to drought -Snehlata Shrivastav
-The Times of India NAGPUR (Maharashtra): Changing weather conditions in Vidarbha over the past few years have spelt doom for orange cultivation in the region. In the near seven-decade history of orange plantations here, this is the first time that an alarming 60% orange orchards have gone completely dry and, for all purposes, died this year. The loss is stark in Warud tehsil of Amravati district followed by Katol and Narkhed tehsils...
More »Centre plans to invest Rs.25 lakh crore to boost agricultural productivity: Ram Nath Kovind
-The Hindu Addressing the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, the President said that a committee of Chief Ministers was being set up to look into structural reforms in the field of agriculture. The Centre plans to invest Rs.25 lakh crore in the farm sector in the coming years to boost agricultural productivity, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Thursday. Addressing the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, the President said...
More »Bullet train impact on Gujarat Farmers: Japanese funders asked to provide report
-Counterview.net In a letter, Gujarat's environmental group Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti's (PSS) Rohit Prajapati, Krishnakant and Swati Desai have asked Katsuo Matsumoto, chief representative, Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to share the copy of the report it has prepared on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, submitted to the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), Government of India, after a JICA team's visit to Gujarat and Maharashtra. Top funders of the high profile...
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