Cotton Farming

The Punjab Cabinet on Wednesday approved a policy formulated for extending relief to cotton picking farm labourers affected by the damage caused to the crop by the pink bollworm pest attack.

Among thousands who thronged the national capital to register their protest against increasing expenditure and decreasing farm income, there were wives of farmers who had committed suicide. At least four women, wives of cotton farmers from Telangana who killed themselves, had marched to the parliament. They had hung photographs of their husbands ar...

Access to education is still a luxury for young girls in Telangana's Warangal district who are dropping out of school to work on farms. When the debt-ridden farmer can't afford to pay to farm labour, the girl child is the first casualty.

The farmers whose names have been given to the government by the District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) under the loan-waiver scheme will get money in their bank accounts before Diwali, Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Pandurang Phundkar said today. He said the government will release the funds to those districts where the DCC Banks have submit...

Yadadri, Telangana: Two years after her husband drank pesticide and killed himself unable to pay off farm debts, Manjula Karnala is a farmer herself. At her home in a village in the Yadadri district of Telangana, about 80 km from Hyderabad, there are no photos of her husband, Sridhar Karnalala. Manjula explains that’s because her young son was t...

A Louisiana mother says her 8-year-old son was injured when he tried to protect his 4-year-old sister during an after-school altercation in which other children hurled racial insults before slamming the boy on the ground.

The move will also create tremendous demand for farm waste.

US seed company Monsanto is welcome to leave India if it does not want to lower prices of genetically modified cotton seeds as directed by the government, a minister said on Wednesday, in a sign the rift between New Delhi and the firm is widening.

15-year- old Karamjit Kaur is in a state of shock, her father Sukhminder Singh, a 42-year- old farmer, consumed pesticide and hanged himself from a tree in his field, a day after he destroyed his pest ridden cotton crop. What is worrying the elders most is the repayment of Rs three lakh bank loan taken by the farmer.

Days after a cotton farmer in Tamil Nadu killed himself, allegedly because last Friday's unseasonal rains destroyed his entire crop, the farmer's father says his son wouldn't have taken such an extreme step if the state government had insured his cotton crop instead of refusing to do so.

Swapna was returning home from her first day at work as a farm hand when we reached Vangapadu village in Warangal district. The first year B.Com student told us she had spent all day applying fertiliser to cotton saplings in a field some three kilometers away.

India, one of the world's biggest producers and consumers of rice, corn, cooking oil, sugar and cotton, relies heavily on annual rains as nearly half of its farm lands are rainfed.

The crucial monsoon arrived on cue in Kerala on the southern coast on Saturday, a top weather official said, boosting farming prospects and raising hopes a drought in cotton and sugar growing areas will ease.

This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbour," and the power of group prayer.

Here are some facts on the monsoon and its impact:

The Punjab Cabinet on Wednesday approved a policy formulated for extending relief to cotton picking farm labourers affected by the damage caused to the crop by the pink bollworm pest attack.

Among thousands who thronged the national capital to register their protest against increasing expenditure and decreasing farm income, there were wives of farmers who had committed suicide. At least four women, wives of cotton farmers from Telangana who killed themselves, had marched to the parliament. They had hung photographs of their husbands ar...

Access to education is still a luxury for young girls in Telangana's Warangal district who are dropping out of school to work on farms. When the debt-ridden farmer can't afford to pay to farm labour, the girl child is the first casualty.

The farmers whose names have been given to the government by the District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) under the loan-waiver scheme will get money in their bank accounts before Diwali, Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Pandurang Phundkar said today. He said the government will release the funds to those districts where the DCC Banks have submit...

Yadadri, Telangana: Two years after her husband drank pesticide and killed himself unable to pay off farm debts, Manjula Karnala is a farmer herself. At her home in a village in the Yadadri district of Telangana, about 80 km from Hyderabad, there are no photos of her husband, Sridhar Karnalala. Manjula explains that’s because her young son was t...

A Louisiana mother says her 8-year-old son was injured when he tried to protect his 4-year-old sister during an after-school altercation in which other children hurled racial insults before slamming the boy on the ground.

The move will also create tremendous demand for farm waste.

US seed company Monsanto is welcome to leave India if it does not want to lower prices of genetically modified cotton seeds as directed by the government, a minister said on Wednesday, in a sign the rift between New Delhi and the firm is widening.

15-year- old Karamjit Kaur is in a state of shock, her father Sukhminder Singh, a 42-year- old farmer, consumed pesticide and hanged himself from a tree in his field, a day after he destroyed his pest ridden cotton crop. What is worrying the elders most is the repayment of Rs three lakh bank loan taken by the farmer.

Days after a cotton farmer in Tamil Nadu killed himself, allegedly because last Friday's unseasonal rains destroyed his entire crop, the farmer's father says his son wouldn't have taken such an extreme step if the state government had insured his cotton crop instead of refusing to do so.

Swapna was returning home from her first day at work as a farm hand when we reached Vangapadu village in Warangal district. The first year B.Com student told us she had spent all day applying fertiliser to cotton saplings in a field some three kilometers away.

India, one of the world's biggest producers and consumers of rice, corn, cooking oil, sugar and cotton, relies heavily on annual rains as nearly half of its farm lands are rainfed.

The crucial monsoon arrived on cue in Kerala on the southern coast on Saturday, a top weather official said, boosting farming prospects and raising hopes a drought in cotton and sugar growing areas will ease.

This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbour," and the power of group prayer.

Here are some facts on the monsoon and its impact: