Groundwater is a major source of water in India, used extensively to support agriculture and other sectors, while also ...

Concerns such as stubble burning, groundwater depletion or pesticide pollution are absent from environmental legislations.

Countries worldwide facing acute water scarcity have already demonstrated that treated wastewater can be used to meet a ...

India is the world's second-largest producer of wheat and rice and is home to more than 600 million farmers. The country has achieved impressive food-production gains since the 1960s, due in part to ...

T'puram: State agriculture department is planning to roll out micro-irrigation schemes worth Rs 100 crore to address irrigation issues faced by farmers during summer. Inaugurating a programme to ...

A group of private companies is pioneering a new approach to powering the agricultural industry in rural India that could significantly increase productivity of small-holder farmers, by combining ...

The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has successfully driven the installation of 45,911 off-grid solar agricultural pumps in just 30 days. The milestone was ...

Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for more than 90% of humanity’s water consumption. While irrigation is necessary to ...