-The Times of India BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh which prides itself to be the new grain bowl of India is rocked by Rs 60-crore wheat scam, according to investigations conducted by TOI in just eight of 51 districts of the state. More than 2 lakh quintals of wheat procured in 2013-14 in eight districts have gone missing. Payments have been made by co-operative societies, but wheat purchased from farmers was not deposited...
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The Spectre of Food Crisis in India
-The Navhind Times THAT climate will remain in a state of flux is a given. The fallout of global warming will be periodic extreme heat and drought, as was experienced by the United States and some other food-exporting countries in 2012, sending food prices close to record levels. At the same time, many countries, including China and India will experience heavy rains and floods from time to time, damaging food production. Even...
More »A great leap forward for agriculture -Bhavarlal H Jain
-The Hindu Business Line A set of technologies that deals with production and marketing constraints can work wonders Indian agriculture faces herculean challenges today; yet, the near- and the medium-term outlook on agriculture and agri-businesses seem bright. Growing urbanisation and changing food habits, malnutrition plus declining areas under foodgrain pose a big threat to food security. Agriculture and food production are strongly influenced by international trade, credit availability, development co-operation, climate change and environmental...
More »How do you feed thousands of people in Rajasthan without irrigation?-Arati Kumar Rao
-Grist Media The people of the Thar desert have their ways. This story unfolds over a year and recounts history through contemporary lives lived gently and with the land. It experiences first-hand the extraordinary old magic of growing lush crops in the desert. The land was the color of burnt caramel. It was flat and it was featureless: there was no tree in sight, no blade of grass, no ditch, no dune,...
More »Scheduled tribes show worrying decline in child sex ratio
-The Times of India The scheduled tribes in India have traditionally had the highest sex ratios - the number of women for every 1,000 men - among all communities. But, detailed data on individual tribal communities just put out by the census shows that the situation is worsening in almost each case. And the sex ratio in the population aged zero to six is significantly lower. In 2011, India's ST population as...
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