-The Times of India NEW DELHI:To achieve the country's population control target faster, the government has decided to accelerate family PLAnning measures by identifying 146 districts where the total fertility rate (TFR, the number of children born per woman) is more than three and which add up to 28% of the population. The health ministry is set to roll out "Mission Parivar Vikas" in these districts to improve access to family PLAnning...
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Promote natural farming to prevent ryot suicides, says Subhash Palekar
-The New Indian Express GUNTUR: Subhash Palekar, inventor of Zero Budget Spiritual Farming, conducted an awareness programme on natural farming methods for farmers at KSPR Stadium in Narasaraopet on Tuesday. He exhorted farmers to opt for natural farming as it helps reduce their cultivation costs and achieve higher yield. He felt that ryot suicides due to debt burden could be checked by promoting natural farming in a big way in the...
More »Two charts show why western Madhya Pradesh became the epicentre of violent farmer protests -Mridula Chari
-Scroll.in Soyabean, the main crop of Malwa region, has seen a sharp fall in prices. As a small-time commission agent who buys soyabean from farmers on behalf of oilseed crushing companies in Indore, Manilal Patel has a ringside view of what sparked the farmer unrest in western Madhya Pradesh this month. The fertile Malwa PLAteau here produces around 20% of India’s’s soyabean. As much as 80% of the crop used to be...
More »Chouhan meets deceased farmers' kin, gives Rs. 1 cr each in aid
-PTI Mandsaur (M.P.): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday visited Mandsaur, where five farmers were allegedly killed in police firing during a protest, and handed over Rs. 1 crore each as aid to the kin of the deceased. Chouhan, along with wife Sadhna, reached Mandsaur on a special PLAne and first went to Badwan village to meet the kin of Ghanshyam Dhakad, who was among the six killed in...
More »Rain clouds thinning out in west and central India
-The Times of India Low-flying clouds that usually bring rain in the monsoon have thinned out and reduced over the years in India, according to a study of 50 years of observations by the Indian Met department. This means that there will be more number of hotter days, less rainy days and more days with large difference between day and night temperatures. That's the average for the whole country over all...
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