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Grazing Lands
@KumarSambhav_S The sinking ship
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
An overwhelmed Jeevabai rushes towards her daughter-in-law to show a photograph of a camel herd swimming in sea water. Curious, other women of the house in Kachchh’s Laiyari village surround the two.
The goat gamble
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
Giyasilal Saini is a marginal farmer who has market savvy. It comes from experience. Living in a semi-arid area like Alwar in Rajasthan, he always knew he could not depend on farming alone. So he would keep some goats, like others in village Jaitpura. Then three years ago the pond that irrigated his tiny field dried up. “Rains have not been enough. I spent a fortune on irrigating my field but could not grow enough for my family,” said the 36-year-old. He devoted his energy to goat rearing.
High cost of fodder led milk price hike
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2010
Birmashri Rathore knows exactly how much water to add to milk so that it can still be accepted as milk.
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2000
The milk that ate the grass
Issue Date: Apr 15, 1999
SCENE I: 5 am in the morning, a household in any part of India. The milkman rings the doorbell. The sleepy-eyed customer takes the daily quota of the white fluid and prepares for the day ahead. There are more than 900 million people in the country. The demand for milk is stupendous. And the country just became the largest producer of milk in the world.
Letters
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2011
Facts of the Thar
Village refuses to part with forest
Issue Date: May 15, 2011
THERVOY Kandigai village, 50 km northwest of Chennai in Thiruvallur district, is planning another protest against the Tamil Nadu government’s plan to set up an industrial estate on its 405 hectares (ha) of common forestland. People were encouraged by the recent Supreme Court ruling declaring the transfer of common land for private or commercial development illegal (see ‘Return of village land’, Down To Earth, February 16-28, 2011).
Return of village land
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2011
JAGPAL SINGH and Dev Singh of Jagir Rohar village in Patiala have little idea that their enmity has resulted in a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court that would bear implications for the rural population of the country.
