A UK-based climate change expert has said that there will be an exceptional change in the temperatures in Pakistan as a whole in the coming years, but that the province of Sindh will be less affected as compared to the other parts of the country.
Rahi Gaikwad
Poor infrastructure; dismal situation on power, irrigation fronts
BJP promises to make Maharashtra free of load-shedding
Marathwada has sizeable number of Dalits, Muslims
In Maharashtra, cotton has never received the support sugarcane has. It is grown in poor regions by dryland farmers with far less political clout than the Pawars of western Maharashtra.
TAKING STOCK: S. Raja Mohamed, Assistant Director of Horticulture, Vilathikulam, with a team of officials inspecting a papaya tree Jameen Karisalkulam in Tuticorin district.
A year ago, in this very column, I discussed the myopia of budget 2008, which did not touch upon events then beginning to unfold. Since then we have seen the world collapse and, perhaps, even
The small farmers of Central Himalayan region are achieving high level of diversification through rotation of pure crops in space and time, and through mixed cropping systems. The system with a potential to feed the hill population and conserve natural resources, requires serious attention from the policy makers, to survive.
In 1999, Aspen and David Edge bought Semilla Besada, a 12 hectare farm in southern Spain, with the intention of re-establishing its family farming tradition. They faced various challenges: the dryland environment, lack of markets and little social support.
Bottlenecks of barren and dryland farming were discussed at a meeting organised on the university campus recently. The meeting was convened by the Department of Agronomy of the varsity under the directives of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
The spatial and temporal variability experienced in the weather conditions of a local area as well as the landmass on which they act makes the overall system highly dynamic and therefore complex to understand in terms of its water resources.
In this article the author reviews NREGA as it is unfolding in Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra Pradesh thirty-eight lakh households have registered from employment covering thirteen districts. Of this about a third are yet to receive their job cards.
