-TheBetterIndia.com Appaso Kabade, a farmer from Karandwadi village in the Sangli district of Maharashtra, owned 30 acres of ancestral land. As a local sugar mill was giving a reasonable price for sugarcane, he started growing the crop. He was able to grow about 25 to 30 tonnes of sugarcane per acre, but his dream was to reach up to 100 tonnes from the land, but it remained unfulfilled. Suresh took to farming...
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Pesticide poisoning continues to claim farmers' lives in Maharashtra -Serish Nanisetti
-The Hindu In the cotton belt of Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district, pesticide poisoning through inhalation has caused 21 deaths in three months. Serish Nanisetti reports on the deadly cocktail of absent regulation, government apathy, and farmers’ desperation that continues to claim lives Geeta Bandu Sonule doesn’t cry any more. Not even when she relives the final moments of her husband Chandrakant Bandu Sonule (40), who died two months ago, after spraying pesticide on...
More »Deaths in road accidents see steepest decline ever -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: fatalities in road accidents have declined by 5,000 during three quarters of 2017 (January to September) in comparison to the same period in 2016. This is also the steepest ever reduction in road deaths, according to the data shared by state governments with Supreme Court appointed panel on road safety. Among major states, Punjab has recorded the maximum decline in road deaths by 14.4% followed...
More »Why India continues to use lethal pesticides -Sonam Taneja
-Down to Earth Death of cotton farmers due to pesticide poisoning in the Vidarbha region raises vital questions about the government's attitude towards regulation of toxic pesticides One more evil has reared its ugly head in Maharashtra’s arid Vidarbha region, which has so far been infamous for farmer suicides. Some 35 farmers in the region have died of pesticide poisoning in last four months. Most of them were working in cotton and...
More »Milk output rises 19% in 2014-17
-PTI New Delhi: India’s milk production rose by 19 per cent in the last three years to touch 163.6 million tonnes, leading to a significant increase in dairy farmers’ income, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said today. Addressing a function on the National Milk Day, he said the government has launched many programmes in the last three years to raise dairy sector’s productivity. The minister announced that a National Action Plan Vision-2022 would...
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