Shivam Bhardwaj
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Hardy crops are failing in drought-hit parts of Karnataka (opens the original)
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Shiva Shekhar, a 40-year-old farmer from Padavalapatna village in Mandya district’s Nagamangala taluk, could not sow ragi this kharif. “I kept waiting for the rain but it never came, so I sowed cowpea instead, which is more drought-tolerant,” he said on September 16. Karnataka is the largest ragi-producing state in the country. In 2025-’26, India produced 2 million tonnes of ragi, of which 1.47 million tonnes came from Karnataka, according to the Third Advance Estimates for the year from the Dep
In arid Bundelkhand, farm ponds falter as monsoon dries up (opens the original)
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“Very low rain this year; only one rain in this season till now,” said 35-year-old farmer Vipin Kumar Yadav from Manipur village in Mahua block of Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, this July, as the agriculture-dependent region waited for rains. Pointing to the farm pond, or khet talab, dug on his land, Yadav said the difference from last year was stark. “Look at this, how little water is in my pond this time. Last year around this time, the entire pond was full. I used that water in October-Novem
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