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Depleting Soil Health: The Price of Growing Water-Guzzling Crops
States primarily growing water-intensive crops have more depleted soil, with lower levels of macro and micronutrients like nitrogen, iron, zinc and sulphur.
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Pesticides Helped Bring Modern Farming To India. One Tiny State Is Leading The Charge To Ban Them
Fifteen years ago, the tiny Indian state of Sikkim launched a radical experiment: Its leaders decided to phase out pesticides on every farm in the state, a move without precedent in India - and probably the world.
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Farmer Could Not Afford Oxen, Uses Daughters To Plough Fields
Bhopal: A farmer, too poor to buy oxen, was forced to use his two young daughters to pull the plough through his field in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore, the home district of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan who also pioneered the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao‘ (Save girl child, educate girl child) campaign. Sardar Barela, the father of the two girl...
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Ocean Warming To Impact Food Production In India: Study
Food security of India and several other major key food producing countries are threatened by changing weather patterns due to warming of the oceans, which may well be the "greatest" hidden challenge for the present generation, according to a study.
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Depleting Soil Health: The Price of Growing Water-Guzzling Crops
States primarily growing water-intensive crops have more depleted soil, with lower levels of macro and micronutrients like nitrogen, iron, zinc and sulphur.
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Pesticides Helped Bring Modern Farming To India. One Tiny State Is Leading The Charge To Ban Them
Fifteen years ago, the tiny Indian state of Sikkim launched a radical experiment: Its leaders decided to phase out pesticides on every farm in the state, a move without precedent in India - and probably the world.
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Farmer Could Not Afford Oxen, Uses Daughters To Plough Fields
Bhopal: A farmer, too poor to buy oxen, was forced to use his two young daughters to pull the plough through his field in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore, the home district of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan who also pioneered the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao‘ (Save girl child, educate girl child) campaign. Sardar Barela, the father of the two girl...
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Ocean Warming To Impact Food Production In India: Study
Food security of India and several other major key food producing countries are threatened by changing weather patterns due to warming of the oceans, which may well be the "greatest" hidden challenge for the present generation, according to a study.
