Farmers

Boiling point

What began as just a demand for water boiled over into an unexpected tragedy when police opened fire to disperse a mob that had reportedly turned violent.

Publication Date:

27/06/2005

Author(s): Rohit Parihar

Source: India Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

Rajasthan, Farmers, Tonk (D), Water Demand, Dams, Irrigation

India

RESIDUE OF A REVOLUTION

Bhola Singh is dead... Bhola Singh was a farmer from village Balloh, district Bhatinda, Punjab. He is part of a story with a beginning and an end. But it has no middle. Thus what

Publication Date:

14/06/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050615

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Health Effects, Cancer, Farmers, Blood, Research, India, Punjab, Statistics

Agriculture

Vanilla is still economically viable

Having known the export potential of vanilla Spices Board during IX plan took up a programme to popularize the crop in Kerala and Karnataka. As a result by the end of the plan period about 320 hectares were brought under cultivation. The programme was extended with a targeted area of 5000 hectares for the X plan.

Publication Date:

01/05/2005

Source: Spice India

Vol:

0

Issue:

0

pp:

17

Tags:

Agriculture, Vanila, Spices, Food Prices, Trade, Farmers, Exports, India

Agriculture

Too little to share

Kerala s paddy farmers resent water disbursal to NTPC plant

Publication Date:

14/04/2005

Author(s): Krishna Prasad

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Dams, Irrigation, Farmers, Conflicts, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Kerala, Alappuzha (D)

Air Pollution

Farmers, herdsmen clash

Nigeria's Adamawa state recently witnessed a weeklong fierce battle between nomadic herdsmen and farmers. In the deadliest of these clashes, ethnic Fulani herdsmen attacked the farming village of

Publication Date:

14/03/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20050315

pp:

0

Tags:

Farmers, Conflicts, Nigeria

Water Resources