The State Soil Conservation Department has chalked out a plan for controlling soil erosion and managing flash floods in Guwahati city with an estimated cost of Rs 21.25 crore. The project, prioritized by the State planning and Development Department, proposed that the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER) should fund it under the Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources in 2009.

Chandigarh BY 2025, India will be in deep water crisis, said experts at a seminar on water scarcity organised by Universal Rationale Genre of Exponents (URGE) on Thursday.

It was an experiment that was supposed to let farmers have it both ways. Unable to wean them away from paddy, the Punjab government banned early transplantation of the crop last year to arrest the dwindling groundwater level. The move, which coincided with a good monsoon, succeeded in this purpose and even resulted in a rise in the level in some districts.

The late rains provide scope for minimising crop damage

Karnal: Alarmed at diminishing minerals contents and nutrients in the soil, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has launched a customised fertilisers manufacturing project with focus on crop, soil and size of land holding in different localised areas.

Farm scientists and experts from SAARC countries today expressed concern over the gradual loss of soil fertility in the Indo-Gangetic plain during the past four decades and described it as a grave threat to the sustainability of agricultural crops in the region.

Lux Lakshmanan

Food security in India is getting more and more dependent on annual monsoons. In a year of low rainfall, a large section of the people, especially those below the poverty line, have to depend on subsidised government food rations. If this situation continues, the country will be stressed for resources to provide food for the people.