Farmers

Farmers may make entry in board rooms...Corporate farming's all set to get a social facelift.

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Crop failure: Bellary cotton farmers in deep waters... They had invested Rs 15,000 per acre by borrowing loan from banks and private money lenders to raise the crop....

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Water Resource

Flawed model for water regulation... Scrutiny of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority Act shows that the progressive promises of its wording are likely to be belied. Partly this is because of fundamental flaws in its structure, but it is also partly because it reinforces the standard World Bank pattern of reforms, writes Shripad Dharmadhikary.

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Bio-fertilizer

 Irradiate with joy: bio-fertiliser from processed sewage sludge... Water board joins hands with BARC to treat city's massive sewerage
The Hindu - 8th May 2007