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In India, a devastating harvest season for northern farmers puts lives at risk -Ritu Sharma

-UCANews.com Some farmers mull abandoning generations of farming for more reliable jobs Devinder Bhardwaj was hoping for a bumper crop on his modest four-acre (1.6 hectare) plot of land. The profits from selling his wheat in the market, he hoped, would provide a much-needed injection to his family’s savings. But this year, unseasonal rains and hailstorms washed away his plans. “The whole crop was under water due to the rains. Not even a...

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HUL's 42-crore initiative breathing life into public works under MGNREGA -Naren Karunakaran

-The Economic Times The elders of Pimparkhed in the punishingly dry Marathwada region of Maharashtra remember the severe drought of 1972; it was then that the village had seen water conservation work of some significance being undertaken. Over four decades later nothing has changed; this village of 1,000 residents continue to rely on tankers for its water needs. And Marathwada has Turned into an epicentre of farmer suicides in the country;...

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Let us now make more food in India -Pulapre Balakrishshnan

-The Hindu Business Line AgriculTure development and food security form the foundation of manufacTuring growth. Modi must realise this Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation ‘Make in India’ would make perfect sense till we realise that by ‘making’ he means manufacTuring. But could it be that his focus on manufacTuring may come a cropper if we do not ensure that agriculTure is placed permanently on a sound footing? The history of the great...

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India’s wheat crisis

-The Financial Express At today’s prices, imports cost less than Indian grain Imagine the irony. India has 34 million tonnes of wheat stocks with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) already and another 3-4 million will get added to this by July 1, but the country is still importing wheat, albeit in very small quantities. By July 1, FCI’s wheat and rice stocks will cross 60 million tonnes as compared to the...

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Rapes, women’s abductions in Mumbai rise sharply this year -V Narayan

-The Times of India MUMBAI: A statistical study of crime in Mumbai in the first three months of 2015 shows that abductions of women rose more than one-and-a-half times (165%) over the same period last year. The response to the right to information (RTI) query also revealed that cases of rapes increased by 43%, although the number of gang-rape cases dropped from seven to four. The data sought by activist Chetan Kothari...

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