Despite the district suffering from nature's wrath in one way or the other for the last five years, the Annewari (value of crop) survey conducted by the district administration has estimated the average annewari in Yavatmal to be above 50%.
According to a report submitted by the district administration to the divisional commissioner, the average Annewari of Yavatmal district is pegged at 53%.
MUMBAI: On Sunday, TOI reported that Ashok Chavan, as mining minister in 2008, had leased out forest land in the eco-sensitive Yavatmal region for mining to his colleagues.
Swiss Agency for ent and Cooperation (SDC) and Action for Food Production (AFPRO) have tied up for promoting sustainable approaches for improving rural livelihoods through socio-technical interventions.
To commemorate the SDC-AFPRO partnership, Philippe Welti, ambassador of Switzerland to India, released a document
Farmer Subhash Sharma watched the decline of his soil and agricultural yields before he let nature be his teacher and understood the agro-economics of agriculture. He abandoned insecticides and chemical fertilisers and relied instead on the cow, trees, birds and vegetation.
PUNE: A resident of Yavatmal in Maharashtra is asked to give proof of birth for three generations in his family for him to get access to land under the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers Recognition of Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006. But for the people in these areas who cannot read or write,
Sitting in the front yard of his hut, Babarao Turankar, 50, and his neighbours in Mangi village of south Yavatmal are engaged in deep discussion. Finally, one of them says,
Two years of drought has started to take its toll on the people of Vidarbha, with a failed crop leaving them with no income to tide over the crisis.
Parched land:Across rural Amravati, Akola, Washim and Yavatmal, almost every human being you see in the morning is collecting or searching for water. A scene in Akola.
Yavatmal: The Yavatmal Zilla Parishad has resolved to prepone all its school exams this year due to the prevailing drinking water scarcity in the district.
