Improving water security in Maharashtra’s cotton-growing villages

Cotton is an important fibre crop in Maharashtra, with more than four million farmers engaged in cotton farming

`It is easy to die'

Maharashtra's solar pump scheme in Vidarbha not working: CSE survey

Farmers have not used the pumps which were installed during drought years; they could also have ruined the area’s water table

Restore malgujari tanks to irrigate eastern Vidarbha: study

Irrigation potential of 125,000 ha unused since 1950

Blazing India: The sun beats down mercilessly on Vidarbha

With no rains yet and the heat wave still on, the situation in Maharashtra’s easternmost region has everybody worried

Why India continues to use lethal pesticides

Death of cotton farmers due to pesticide poisoning in the Vidarbha region raises vital questions about the government's attitude towards …

‘Lanco public hearing rigged’

Farmers accuse power company of registering bogus speakers, question timing of public hearing with sowing season

Heat waves to follow in the wake of Amphan: IMD

Isolated areas in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh will suffer from heat waves between May 18 and May 22, it says

Most political parties turn blind eye to Maharashtra farmers' woes

Narendra Modi's visit to Yavatmal shatters hopes of farmers; he avoided addressing the demand for remunerative prices to farm produce

Maharashtra bans Bt cotton seeds of Mahyco Monsanto Biotech

Move follows complaints against the company of providing inferior seeds, cheating and creating shortages

Water, Marathwada women’s woe: Weather vagaries force farmers to sell lands

Simultaneous droughts and floods have become an increasing concern and the instances have escalated in the past five decades

Nearly 600 farmer suicides in 8 months: Is Marathwada facing agri-distress

Activists blame government policies for the farmers’ situation, rather than extreme weather events

Excessive July rains destroyed 800,000 hectares of crops in Maharashtra

Marathwada, Vidharba regions heavily affected  

Marathwada in the grip of drought-like situation

With only 58 per cent rainfall this season, Maharashtra is likely to face one of the worst agrarian crises ever

Bid to denotify Nag river's upper reaches stalled

State environment ministry rejects proposal of state pollution control board that would have paved way for real estate development

Sarpamitras to get ID cards in Maharashtra

Some voluntary snake rescuers were found involved in smuggling snakes or keeping them in captivity, prompting forest department to fix …

Climate change escalates suicide rates among Marathwada farmers

Farmer suicides have increased significantly and doubled in some regions where weather extremities incurred heavy losses

Maharashtra to allow coal mines closer to rivers

Relaxation of river zone regulation law will damage rivers and even mines, say environmentalists

Vidarbha farmers unhappy with minimum support price for cash crops

Agriculture ministry overlooked increased input and labour costs, ignored state government recommendations

Vidarbha compensation package inadequate

Price support, not loans, can save Vidarbha farmers

In the name of the farmer

Western Vidarbha reduces use of synthetic fertilisers

No corresponding drop in agricultural production

Scientist meets bumpkin

Aparna Pallavi on what happens when farmers' innovations are brought to the notice of agriculture scientists 

Maharashtra rejects more agri insurance claims even as farm suicides double

No data on suicides across India since 2015; number of claim rejections far exceeded number of cases approved in 2016-18

Fight over regional resources drive demand for new states

Linguistic and cultural identity, which defined state boundaries in the initial years after Independence, take secondary place