Tall promises
The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers
Has bureaucratic bungling led to problems for natural farming scheme in Andhra Pradesh
Five years after it was launched, non-payment of staff salaries, excessive hype plague the scheme, observers say
Desertification in India: Ananthapuramu in Andhra is so sandy it draws filmmakers to shoot
Dwindling rainfall, dependence on borewell for water-guzzling horticulture increase soil aridity
Changing colours
After blindly destroying much of their forest cover, people in Anantapur district attempt to reclaim their barren lands
Orchards in desert
A simple technology assures continuous moisture supply to plants, helps grow orchards in water-scarce areas
Drought, but why: Area under cultivation has halved in Andhra Pradesh's Ananthapuramu
Decades of deficit rainfall, monoculture in agriculture and perpetually mounting farmer debts have left the district in the lurch
Rice from dry river
Farmers in an arid Andhra Pradesh district revive traditional irrigation system to tide over drought
Green energy takes toll on green cover
A forest generated by residents in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district is being destroyed to set up windmills
A million opportunities lost
The ruling alliance’s flagship rural employment programme took unprecedented strides in creating water conservation structures across the …
Trial and error
What bleeds Bellary
How illegal iron ore mining has bled Karnataka’s Bellary district
Return of village land
Supreme Court asks states to evict illegal occupants of village commons