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Palghar tribal village says no to child marriages
Summer vacations have just begun and 15-year-old Sangeeta Yashwant Chavan is excited to be home. A student of boarding school, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya at Sakri in Palghar district of...
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Competition encourages watershed management to drought-proof Maharashtra...
Exactly a year ago, armed with iron rods and spades, a group of residents of Nigadi village in Koregaon taluka (administrative block) of Satara walked upstream to the neighboring Kanerkhed village. One...
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Tribal village in Palghar ensures water availability through summer
On a hot April afternoon, Bhetwadi village in Mokhada administrative block of Palghar wore a deserted look. The hills surrounding this tribal village of 72 families, about 150 km north of Mumbai, were...
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Farmers in Maharashtra fear loss of kharif harvest, blame Met department
Farmers in Maharashtra are furious, and their anger is directed towards the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the government agency responsible for weather forecasting in the country. On July 14,...
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Children do not smile in Dhanbad villages
Sixty-eight-year-old Himanshu Chakrabarty of Brahman Tola village in Ghadbad panchayat of Dhanbad has only one desire — death. For more than 15 years, he is suffering from weak and deformed bones with...
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New drought manual may aggravate farm distress
The Indian government is leaving no stone unturned to fight the occurrence of drought in the country. The Manual for Drought Management, released in December 2016 by the Union Ministry of Agriculture...
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Hailstorms devastate Marathwada, Vidarbha farmers
“We have no alternative other than taking our lives,” says a despondent Manoj Laxmanrao Shembde Patil, a farmer from Khade village in Georai taluka of Beed in Maharashtra. On his 17-acre (6.88 hectare)...
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Improved stoves boon for women in rural Sikkim
A drive of 74 km through winding mountain roads and several gushing tributaries of Teesta River leads to Rongli town in the remote East Sikkim district. Thereafter, there is no tarred road to reach...
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Karnataka dairy farmers face heat of drought
Shivamma is secretary of Stree Shakti women self-help group in Somlara village of Tumkur district in Karnataka. Everyday more than 15 women dairy farmers in her village in Madhugiri block supply milk...
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Drought-hit farmers grow crops with treated wastewater
Kolar in Karnataka is one of the 24 districts in the country identified as eternally drought-prone. Being in a semi-arid zone with no perennial river, the district faces recurring droughts. This year,...
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