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Agriculture

Try weather-based insurance

Business Standard / New Delhi October 17, 2008, 0:31 IST

Publication Date: 
17/10/2008
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Crop Insurance, Farmers, National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
Fisheries

After industries, blue revolution ready to beckon Western Orissa

BHUBANESWAR: After industrial boom, Western Orissa is all set to experience another revolution. Aquaculture, which has earlier been the mainstay of the coastal and central districts, is going to transform livelihood options of the poor and marginal sections in the interior pockets.

Publication Date: 
21/08/2008
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Fisheries, Farmers, Rural Development, Orissa (Odisha), Bargarh (D), Kalahandi, Nuapada (D), National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
Energy

Let the sun light up our homes

Of the reported 25 lakh homes worldwide that use solar home systems today, about" 3.6 lakh are in India, second only to China which has four lakh solar home system users.

Publication Date: 
05/06/2008
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Solar Energy, Rural Electrification, Solar Cells, Solar Water Heaters, TERI, National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
Food Policy

Public distribution system and social exclusion

In striving for "efficiency' by means of narrow targeting, households that should be entitled to basic food security through the PDS have been left out.

Publication Date: 
07/05/2008
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Prices, Food Supply, Poverty, India, Food Security, National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)

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