India’s water problem has a simple solution
Reducing its use in agriculture is the most effective way of solving India’s water problem.
What we should know about National Water Commission
Mihir Shah Committee report suggests restructuring CWC and CGWB and setting up an apex body for water management. Experts ... raise some concerns.
Woman earns profit growing organic millets
Millet farmers are able to influence a large number of farmers raising paddy and sugarcane to switch over to organic farming in their area.
Push irrigation, not dams
We can add millions of hectares to irrigated land without building a single new dam. We just need to adopt a different method of managing the water already stored in them.
The Five Per Cent of Palamau farmers
Many more families in this block are now busy digging Five Per Cent ponds in their respective lands so that the rainwater this monsoon does not rush off and a good portion of it stays in their lands.
Organic Agriculture programming for INDIA
Realizing the effects of Conventional System (CS) of agriculture by the stakeholders that are leading to unsustainable trends in productivity of primary industry, society and environment, organic agriculture (OA) is being gradually established as a viable option for sustaining growth of primary sector in India.