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Switching back to coarse cereals can offer multiple benefits: Study
Food supply can be enhanced by planting more nutritious and environment-friendly crops such as finger and pearl millets and sorghum
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India’s water problem has a simple solution
Reducing its use in agriculture is the most effective way of solving India’s water problem.
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Transforming livelihoods through farm ponds
Farm ponds aid in superior water control through the harvesting of rainfall, surface run-off and subsurface flows.
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Water conservation fee: improving or increasing the crisis?
Merely imposing a cost to curb the growing extraction is not enough.
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How an army of women in Vellore resurrected a river that once served as their lifeline
A small team of women build 600 wells to revive a dead river!
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Re-reading Tagore to Become Human
"... we are all willing to pay a premium to experience natural surroundings which offer nutriment to the soul"
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Ensure Irrigation Water for 15,000 Villagers
When the irrigation lake developed a breach, poor farmers in Surendranagar (Gujarat) took it upon themselves to save it.
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Bio-diverse crops is the way forward in Telangana
A small farmer from Medak has made a handsome income growing millets, oilseeds and pulses – without any irrigation source or borewell.
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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.