Budget 2018: Time for promoting sustainable agriculture with focus on improving productivity of major crops

Continuing huge spending on major irrigation projects will not contribute to doubling of farmers’ income

Golf under attack

In response to ecologists up in arms against the golf courses mushrooming all over the world, designers are now coming up with eco-friendly courses.

Traditional irrigation fails themoney test

USER-FRIENDLY IRRIGATION DESIGNS Nirmal Sengupta Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi Price: Rs 185

The debate on interlinking rivers in India

India plans to develop its water resources by interlinking its Himalayan rivers with those in the peninsular region through 30 interlinking canal …

Faulted for raising a banner

At the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul, Payal Parekh and her colleague Ann-Kathrin Schneider were deported. She spoke with Bharat Lal Seth

Reservoir of corruption

How irrigation projects in Maharashtra harnessed money, not water

The last 125 km

Trial and error

People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments

SC orders land compensation

Recognizes rights of people affected by Narmada canals  

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Stop being airtight

Community radio network is a must to ensure development

A way to chew filth

A novel method to tackle sewage, and so, pollution

Too little to share

Kerala's paddy farmers resent water disbursal to NTPC plant

The kuhls of Kangra by J Mark Baker

Book>> the kuhls of kangra by J Mark Baker Permanent Black New Delhi, 2005

Andhra government should immediately compensate tribals displaced by Polavaram project

Scientific assessment of ecosystem services should be carried out for quantifying the compensation

Did ecological impropriety lead to the end?

Historians generally agree that the death of the Indus Valley civilisation did not occur because of a single dramatic event, but came about due …

Home remedies

Indigenous is the byword in the water harvesting techniques followed in India's northeast. In Meghalaya, an intricate network of bamboo pipes is …

The State's non-bureaucratic role of encouraging the people

Indian rulers rarely built water harvesting structures themselves. They, however, encouraged their subjects to build them through fiscal …

Diverse technologies: a treasure trove

Our traditional water harvesting structures demonstrate the people's ingenuity at its best. Using unique modes and basic engineering skills, …

Changing lives

A development project, which has got patronage from the panchayat, is changing the face of many villages in North Bengal

Dark zones are human-made

Groundwater sustains almost 60 per cent of the irrigated land in India. Most districts in India today have larger shares of irrigated land under …

Akash Chaurasia, a millionaire farmer from Bundelkhand

Multilayer farming helps this Madhya Pradesh farmer grow a combination of vegetables round the year

Gujarat passes groundwater bill

The legislation makes it mandatory for farmers to get licence for extracting water