Falling groundwater, climate volatility and weak irrigation efficiency push water security to the centre of India’s farm ...

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

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

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

During the study, researchers used a sub-surface drip fertigation system, combined with conservation agriculture approaches, on wheat fields. (Photo: Naveen Gupta/CIMMYT) Farmers can grow rice and ...

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 ...

India’s mission to deploy some 2 million off-grid solar-powered irrigation pumps by 2022 has made sluggish progress, with only one-eighth of the target achieved so far, according to a new report from ...

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 ...