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

Interview: Popatrao Pawar, sarpanch, Hivre Bazar

A tribute to P R Mishra

P R Mishra used the power of the community to transform the barren landscape of Sukhomajri into a model for forest regeneration

Standing the test of drought

After the 1999 monsoon failed in several areas of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, there is a serious drought. Summer is a good four months away, and …

A midsummer dream

Anyone will tell you that follow-ups are not a story. Journalism is not about following stories of specific villages and how they fare year after …

A political drought

Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

Ministers fight over funding National Rainfed Area Authority

Starved of fodder

Marathwada has been struggling with acute fodder shortage, but the state government has not taken any step to counter the problem

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 …

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 …

Budget 2015 gives drought-hit Marathwada a miss

Proposed PPP in irrigation may prove disastrous as control of water may pass into private hands

Innovative administrator

IAS officer R Gopalakrishnan made development work for people

Urban lake: A reflection of its watershed

Critical to any lake ecosystem, the urban lake’s watershed is the surrounding land area that drains into that particular lake

Subsidies on irrigation efficiency may negatively affect water use: study

The decrease in water availability at watershed levels due to subsidies is a critical concern for India considering the monsoon response to …

Close to 90% projects under PM's flagship irrigation scheme remain incomplete

These 8,214 projects, launched between 2009-10 and 2014-15, should have been completed in 4-7 years

Maharashtra to divert employment guarantee fund

Impotent plan?

In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega). The latest avatar of state-financed employment …

Blind to rain

How 40 villages in Odisha came together to address water crisis

Charmalik has recorded a 2-2.5 ft increase in the surface and sub-surface water level since 2010

Only plans, no integration

Power trickles down

Successful cooperatives compel Maharashtra government to hand over control of irrigation facilities to farmers