-The Indian Express Why pulses aren’t the first choice of Marathwada’s Farmers despite higher prices this time. Latur: About two years ago, Guruling Modi took 10 quintals of tur (pigeon-pea), a crop he had grown for the first time on his two-acre holding, to the market yard at Latur. “I got a price of just Rs 4,200 per quintal, despite my produce being of the best quality. After expenses of Rs 35,000...
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‘No profiteering at the cost of farmer’ -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Land should be given back if the project does not take off: SC New Delhi: Even as several prominent private builders have come under suspicion for delayed completion of housing projects, the Supreme Court has declared land a “scarce natural resource” and forbidden the government from using its powers of compulsory land acquisition to strip poor Farmers of their livelihood only to transfer such land to private builders to feed...
More »Scary scarcity of water -Sreelatha Menon
-Governance Now ... and of planning to counter it. Climate change and economic growth will worsen water shortage, says an MIT study. But there are solutions – even now One billion people will be facing severe water shortage in India and neighbouring areas by 2050 thanks to climate change and expansion of economic growth, according to a projection made by the researchers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their new study...
More »Farmer suicides in Marathwada cross 400 mark in 4 months; toll reaches 1,548 -Manoj Dattatrye
-The Indian Express 92 more than 2015, Govt taskforce says crisis too big, will take time to turn things around. Latur/ Pune: The farmer suicides, which have remained unstoppable for past few years in eight districts of Marathwada, have crossed the staggering 400-mark in just over four month period in 2016. Compared to 2015, as many as 92 more Farmers have embraced deaths in the first four and half months of 2016, highlighting...
More »A farmer’s ‘natural solution’ to agricultural crisis -R Krishna Kumar
-The Hindu Kailashmurthy of Doddainduvadi village has turned 10-acre farm into a heaven of diverse horticultural crops Mysuru: Imagine an oasis in an arid region with a water table at 30 ft against nearly 1,000 ft in most parts of the region; or forest ecology in a barren landscape. That is what Kailashmurthy has achieved following the concepts of natural farming at Doddainduvadi village in Kollegal taluk of Chamarajanagar district. The 10-acre land...
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