Low profits earned from jowar or sorghum cultivation leads to farmers shifting to commercial crops. By Archita Chakraborty February 25, 2020 | Shahapur Jowar production in Shahapur has dropped by 50 percent over a decade as farmers are shifting towards commercial crops and paddy. Commercial crops (or cash crops) are crops grown mainly for profit. […]
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The soil in Shahpur taluk is losing its nutrition due to a large number of paddy growers. By Archita Chakraborty Yadgir: The excessive farming of paddy is affecting the black soil of Shahpur taluk and deteriorating its quality. Superintendent of farming at the research station of college of Agricultural Sciences, Dr Dayanand Sainaad said, “Once […]
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Despite India being declared as open defecation free, villagers of Sandur Taluk still continue to defecate openly. Astha Oriel Around 76 percent of the houses in Sandur Taluk don’t have toilets. As per reports by the Village development department for the state of Karnataka, only 8944 households out of 37578 surveyed houses have toilets in […]
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There has been an increase in children drop out from government schools in Albanoor, and the reason is family migration By Lanka Samanth Bangalore, Nov. 23, 2018. According to statistics provided by the headmaster of Albanoor’s primary government school, in 2017, the total student population of the school was 224, but this year it is […]
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