The Lucknow high court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to purchase all the paddy crops grown in the state within the next two and a half months. The state's paddy growers are on the
Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant s poisonous tubers to end their lives
farmers of Andhra Pradesh have been directed not to cultivate a second crop of rice during the winter season because of low levels of water at the Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar reservoirs of the
P S Ramakrishnan , former director of G B Pant University in Nainital, Uttar Pradesh and currently professor at the School of Environmental Sciences in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, spoke to