Title : CIFA Letter to Aamir Khan  A letter from Chengal Reddy, Secretary General of Consortium of Indian Farmers’ Association (CIFA), dated 11/7/2012, supposedly an “open letter” to Aamir Khan and his “select group of environment activists” who appeared in an episode of Satyamev Jayate on 24th June (not on 12th June as mentioned in [...]

Rain-fed agriculture accounts for 60 per cent of the total area under crops, 48 per cent of the area under food crops and 68 per cent under non-food crops. In terms of production, dry lands account for nearly 80 per cent of the output of coarse cereals, 56 per cent of maize, 65 per cent [...]

Its forecasts aren’t much help given India’s diverse agro-climatic zones, but there’s only so far meteorology can go YOGINDER K ALAGH Chairman, Institute of Rural Management, Anand “The Met models are still the best — not always completely accurate in their forecast, they are the best all the same. As far as I know, the [...]