Slow onset climate-induced disasters leaving migrants at greater risk of human trafficking

Fostering rural livelihoods post COVID

Rural realities amid second COVID surge 

Need to set up an inter-state migration council: NHRC study 

Migrant workers stranded yet again 

Climate Change

Droughts and Floods

Governance

Migration

Coronavirus

Government Programmes

Rural Water

Rural Sanitation

Agriculture, an important sector of our economy accounts for 14 per cent of the nation’s GDP and about 11 per cent of its exports. India has the second largest arable land base (159.7 million hectares) after US and largest gross irrigated area (88 milion hectares) in the world. Rice, wheat, cotton, oilseeds, jute, tea, sugarcane, milk and potatoes are the major agricultural commodities produced. More importantly, over 60 per cent of the country’s population, comprising several million small farming households, depends on agriculture as a principal income source and land continues to be the main asset for livelihood security. 