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Chhattisgarh will not allow GM crops
@Jyotika_Sood Issue Date: Oct 31, 2011
There is a demand to shift agriculture from the State List to the Concurrent List. Is this a good move?
Interviewee:
Chandrasekhar Sahu
Faulty policy causes Maharashtra's farmlands to go dry
Issue Date: May 31, 2008
Water crisis in Maharashtra is the making of the states faulty strategy and misguided policies. A recent report, Combating drought in Maharashtra, explains how by critically analyzing Maharashtras irrigation projects, recurrent floods and water policy. Released by Dushkal Hatavu Manus Jagavu (Maharashtra Drought Forum), a network of ngos, the report is a comprehensive study of the states water scenario.
Polavaram project in legal wrangle
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2008
The multi-crore Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh is currently embroiled in legal issues. But now, the project is being contested on technical issues as well. A study carried out by the International Water Management Institute (iwmi), an international non-profit research and development organization, has questioned the fundamental basis on which the project was designed.
India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2007
the circle of Green Revolution seems to be complete. Punjab's agricultural growth of 1.86 per cent last year was just a plot in a declining graph since 1970. It is clear that the farming system could not sustain itself feeding on super-intensive inputs, organically as well as financially. Such farming technology has robbed off all things natural from agricultural nature. Water table in large parts of central Punjab today is below 10 metres.
The politics of inefficient irrigation technology
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2007
Call it is one of the unknown Indian ironies. Over many years, the Indian state, through its public irrigation agencies, has systematically taken over the management of surface water systems. It has taken over the job of building irrigation systems--dams, reservoirs and canals--then maintaining these and supplying water. This has meant that over the years it has taken over water resources from the hands of village communities. The irony is that even as the state has vested this power in itself, people have taken water under their control.
