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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Centre wants to ban a host of pesticides: Here’s why

Centre proposes banning monocrotophos, methomyl and carbofuran, three Class I pesticides associated with high levels of toxicity that resulted in …

Book Excerpt: Of ‘King Cotton’ and Vidarbha

How the path dependencies in the cotton economy crossed the paths of Vidarbha, Britain, and the American South is a fascinating story

`It is easy to die'

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

Marathwada, Vidharba regions heavily affected