The mindset of farmers should be changed and multiple cropping is essential to increase productivity as recurrence of floods almost every year has made production of crops uncertain said MLA Sipajhar LAC Binanda Kumar Saikia. He was addressing the inaugural function of the cultivation process of mustard, lentils and maize on 444 bighas of wasteland in Duaripara recently.

A 50-acre plot in Action Area III of Rajarhat, with no infrastructure in sight, is the land of hope for the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government desperate to resurrect the bruised Brand Bengal.

New Delhi: In rural India, ceiling should be imposed on irrigated lands above 15-20 hectares and holdings of non-irrigated lands should be limited to 10-15 hectares, a committee of rural development ministry on agrarian land reforms has recommended.

The ceiling limits should be implemented with retrospective effect, the committee said.

The Bill amending the Indian Forest Act, passed by the state Assembly to empower the government to de-notify

Just when irrigation seemed possible People of more than 10 villages in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat have launched an agitation against the state government

Kolkata, June 14 The West Bengal Tourism Department Corporation (WBTDC) has identified 22 waste lands that could be developed into tourist destinations. The move, to have the lands now belonging to the West Bengal Government transferred to WBTDC, is afoot. Giving this information to newspersons here on Saturday, Mr T.V.N.

Pune The wastelands, called padik zameen in the local parlance, on the outskirts of Pune are just pieces of degraded lands that do not fulfil their life-sustaining potential for many. But not for environmentalists who for the first time have studied and located eight species of scorpions in these lands, which are rapidly being utilised for construction and other purposes.

Salient features of the election manifestos of three major national parties.