-India Water Portal Bankura in West Bengal receives 1000 mm of rainfall a year, yet thousands of adivasi Farmers in the area were faced with irrigation issues -- until 'happas' came to the rescue. Amulya Soren couldn’t get stable yields in the kharif (monsoon) paddy in his farm. A member of the Santhal tribe, he was the beneficiary of a surplus land redistribution programme in Hirbandh block of Bankura, West Bengal....
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Congress, NCP slam Maharashtra government for under-reporting farmer suicides
-PTI Leader of opposition in the Legislative Council and NCP leader Dhananjay Munde questioned the basis of the state government's report to the Centre, saying that on an average seven Farmers were committing suicide every day. Congress and NCP on Monday slammed the Maharashtra government for stating in a report to the Centre that only three Farmers committed suicide in the state following the hailstorm and unseasonal rains in the last...
More »Farmers do not know what to sow anymore
-DNA Maharashtra: The consistently untimely rainfall has disturbed the crop sowing pattern in Maharashtra, and Farmers are clueless what to sow now. The distress has led to a rise in farmer suicides in the state. Kailash Patil, cotton growing farmer from Jalgaon, told dna, "We received rainfall throughout this year. We were trained to cultivate crops as kharif (monsoon – June and July) and rabi (winter crop). Through most of both the seasons,...
More »Burning of crops leads to Nutrient loss worth Rs 350CR
-Hindustan Times Fatehgarh Sahib: The burning of crops by Farmers was causing loss to nutrients worth Rs 350 crore in the state alone besides causing environmental pollution and damaging biodiversity, said Dr AK Dhawan, director of Central Soil and Materials Research Station. Dhawan was here as a part of the zonal monitoring committee of the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad that visited Badhouchhi Kalan village in the district to...
More »NHRC to hear grievances from today
-The Hans India The three-day camp sitting will look into a slew of complaints During its three-day camp sitting, the commission will also hold an ‘open hearing’ on April 22 on the problems and grievances of Scheduled Castes who have complaints of atrocities committed by public servants Hyderabad: The National Human Rights Commission will be holding its three-day camp at Hyderabad for the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from April 22 to...
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