A debt-ridden state can offer little to its indebted farmers

Mourn

But it is better to take Andhra Pradesh as a challenge

Village Punukula's different

Managing yields without pesticides

Out on their own

Government delivery programmes provide little support to farmers

Cattle deaths at Bt cotton fields trigger biosafety fear

Will seeds bill make it this time?

Opposition parties say the draft is still not farmer-friendly

Clearance based on false claims

Panel confirms Sompeta and Bhavanapadu thermal project sites are wetlands

Thirsty? Try a glass of skywater

Water can be made from air, but it has its cost   

Rice from dry river

Farmers in an arid Andhra Pradesh district revive traditional irrigation system to tide over drought

Gaps galore

BRANCHING OUT: JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA Nalini Sundar et al • Oxford University Press • New Delhi • 2001 • 289pp

Rivers(e) effect

The Andhra Pradesh government is all set to purify Musi river, which has been given top priority under the National River Conservation plan, by …

Andhra's groundwater crisis & a trail of suicides

Groundwater has failed Andhra Pradesh’s farmers. Between 1997 and 2006, about 4,500 farmers committed suicide, unable to repay loans they …

Lured, used and discarded

Fifteen people hospitalised after unethical drug trial in Hyderabad

Bitter harvest: farmers kill selves

Freak weather destroys crops across India

Bt Cotton imbroglio

A failure of our scientific preparedness. Where are our scientists?

Controlling water

People in Andhra Pradesh now need official consent to sink new wells

High yields in Andhra's pesticide-free village

Orissa won't allow dam at Polavaram

Why are vultures dying?

Zero-budget natural farming brought big gains for Andhra farmers, shows study

Paddy farmers save water, energy and money by adopting this farming approach, the study points out

Seemandhra erupts in anger over Telangana decision

Protesters vent ire on statues of Indira and Rajiv in Anantapur; rallies, violent protests break out in coastal Andhra districts

Telangana might say no to Polavaram

The mega irrigation project will irrigate coastal Andhra but submerge vast areas in Telengana

A water journey

Monsoon means celebrations for the people of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat who script success stories of rainwater harvesting. But in Rajasthan they …

A system in shambles

Weak, corrupt and ineffective implementing institutions make compliance and enforcement of environmental laws abysmally poor in India. Can …

INEVITABLE TRAGEDY

SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers' suicide lies one decade of …