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

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 …