Climate change is actively impeding the progress made across all SDGs: Reveals Dasra

Sustaining ward level water supply schemes in Bihar

Blue-green infrastructure solutions for resilient cities

Can rice residues be turned into wealth?

How to save Joshimath?

Climate Change

Sustainability

Drinking and other Domestic Uses

Rural Water

Ecology and Environment

Urban Water

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. 