Village level projects now water Maharashtra's fields | Read

Nearly nine farmers killed themselves every day in Maharashtra last year. But, in 2016 things could begin to change. A flagship micro-irrigation scheme of the state government, that wants to end dependency on large dams and move to village-level projects for harvesting and conserving water, is beginning to yield results, farmers in Yavatmal's Kolura village say. Yavatmal is part of the infamous suicide belt of Vidarbha, one of the regions hit badly by India's agrarian crisis.