-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Days after attributing the record number of farmer suicides in 2015 to poor disbursement of credit, which left them at the mercy of usurious money lenders, the Centre on Tuesday shared with Parliament grim statistics highlighting how the situation remains unchanged in 2016, with as many as 116 suicides during the first three months. Maharashtra continues to be the dark spot, recording the highest number of...
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A success story in parched Bundelkhand -Omar Rashid
-The Hindu Prem Singh’s farm has plenty of water, fruit-bearing trees, and organic products BANDA (U.P.): In the parched, brown landscape of Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region, where hundreds of distressed farmers have taken their lives in the past few decades or have been forced to migrate, Prem Singh’s farm is an exception. In the fabulous green farm, there is plenty for everyone: abundance of water-bodies for animals to drink from, many fruit-bearing trees,...
More »Why pulses prices are rising -Rajesh Bhayani
-Business Standard Lower output and inadequate policy are some of the reasons Price of pulses has once again started rising with chana trading at Rs 58 per kg in the wholesale market and tur dal set to touch Rs 200 per kg-level in the retail market. Apart from lower crop in India and globally, thoughtless use of policy tools has contributed to the price rise. Government agencies have created a buffer stock of...
More »We don't have national plan to handle disaster like drought, Centre tells SC -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Just a week after telling the court that it had framed the National Disaster Plan to handle natural calamities like drought, the Centre on Tuesday did a U-turn and told the Supreme Court that the plan had not so far been formulated. The Centre had on April 19 told a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and N V Ramana that the government had framed the...
More »A look at India's recurrent drought problem -Srinivas Mazumdaru
-Deutsche Welle Over a quarter of India's population is affected by the ongoing drought conditions prevailing in large parts of the country. DW examines the reasons behind the problem and the steps needed to alleviate it. The ongoing spell of drought and severe water shortages are affecting more than 300 million people in the country, the Indian government said recently, turning the spotlight on a problem that has frequently plagued the...
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