-The World Bank About 7.8 million rural people are expected to directly benefit from the project NEW DELHI: The government of India and the World Bank today signed a $500 million credit agreement to improve piped water supply and sanitation services through decentralized delivery systems in the states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. The credit agreement for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) Project for Low Income States was signed...
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This farmer sees green shoots even on dry land -LN Revathy
-The Hindu Business Line Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu): A good number of farmers in Pappampatti belt of Coimbatore's Palladam taluk have given up vegetable cultivation - for which the area was once known for - because of the persistent dry spell and acute water shortage in that belt. However, one farmer - Balasubramaniam sees green shoots in agriculture in that belt, literally. He is a progressive farmer and mentor to many others in that...
More »India Wasted 1.94 L MT Foodgrain From 2005-13: Report
-Outlook Thane: As much as 1,94,502 metric tonnes of food grain worth crores of rupees was wasted in India due to various reasons between 2005 and March 2013. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has given this information in reply to an RTI query sought by a city-based activist Om Prakash Sharma. He had filed an RTI query last month and sought information about the food grain wastage in India, which he got...
More »FM to shun populism, bat for fiscal prudence -Mahendra Kumar Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The UPA government is expected to announce a minor increase in the outlays for social sector schemes, while leaving the overall Plan expenditure for 2014-15 around the same level as the Budget estimates for the current fiscal. In what may be seen as shunning populism for a more pragmatic fiscal plan, finance minister P Chidambaram is in fact expected to penalize several poor performers, who...
More »Small steps to a bigger yield -Ratnadip Choudhury
-Tehelka Away from the politics of food security, a small initiative in Assam is changing the way young people look at agriculture. Pubali Saikia, 13, plucks fresh ripe tomatoes, as her classmate Sunti Saikia, 14, arranges beanstalks. The two teenagers are excited; it is, after all, the first produce of their life. Of late, the Titabor sub-division in upper Assam's Jorhat district has been witnessing a silent awakening of sorts. And...
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