-PTI   NEW DELHI: The first consignment of onions procured from Maharashtra by government cooperative NAFED reached the city on Monday. These onions will be sold through 380 Safal outlets, said SS Yadav, commissioner, food and supplies department. In order to keep onion prices in check, LG Najeeb Jung had last week instructed National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED) to purchase onions to build stocks. Jung had also told...

-The Pioneer   Raipur: A significant initiative is being taken up at State Government and administrative levels to link the tribal ‘Pahadi Korwa' families,residing in remote pockets of Korba development block, with farming activities. With the work being done by the Government for the development of these tribal families, a new thought is emerging among the tribals who are keen to take up Agricultural activities.According to official sources, there were a total of...

-The New Indian Express   KARIMNAGAR: With a weak monsoon predicted for this season by weather officials, farmers who want to prepare for Kharif are in a fix. Upland area farmers in Husnabad, Illanthakunta, Sircilla, Bheemdeverapalli, Elkathurthy and some other mandals are facing a miserable situation as they have to depend on rain god and borewells in the absence of irrigation facility. Those farmers in other areas and depending on canals, local tanks...

-The Business Standard   How a law to conserve groundwater led to a better paid and better organised migrant workforce Ludhiana: For some years now, Punjab's fields have lain fallow through the searing dry heat of May; but come June's steamy humidity, small bands of lithe, slender men from Bihar fan out across the waterlogged paddy fields, transplanting rice saplings with fluid efficiency. Bihar's paddy planters have frequented Punjab since the 1960s when rice...

-The Indian Express   The food security act is inadequate to meeting the malnutrition challenge. Malnutrition remains one of the biggest challenges facing India. In the last large survey, the National Family Health Survey of 2005-06, about 42 per cent children under the age of five were underweight. Economic growth has failed to redress this problem. Recently released estimates from the District Level Health Survey for selected states continue to paint a dismal...