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NPM IN 2004 |
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Suicides continue. Not just cotton growers, other farmers too are affected in all districts.
Naidu’s TDP loses to Congress in elections. Congress promises agriculture reforms.
CWS forms Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA).
CSA takes forward the NPM programme. G V Ramanjeyulu heads CSA. ( Listen to the interview )
The new agriculture minister visits Punukula. Impressed he wants CSA to make a presentation about NPM. The practice doesn’t go down well with the Agriculture department which refuses to accept the viability of the practice.
Ministry of Rural Development agrees to implement NPM in 400 acres of Kosgi mandal in Mahabubnagar. SERP, a division of MoRD, grants funds to WASSAN for the projects. SERP undertakes the project under the IKP scheme. |
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From Down To Earth |
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Inevitable tragedy
SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers’ suicide lies one decade of neglect.
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