The article by the expert as above has no use. It has not suggested anything how to tackle the situation. Why these type of experts and persons in power in Maharashtra today are hesitant to call spade a spade. Why nobody dare to say ban sugarcane cultivation in the state which is depleting its ground water? Change to other crops.
both erstwhile as well as the current one - have been and are hard at work preparing the ground for a heightened naxalite insurgency in many rural areas !
And after making a vast segment of the rural population increasingly sympathetic to naxalite dogmas, the government will pretend surprise that naxalism is growing !
Yes barring drought conditions, water availability is the same, but need for water have gone 3-4 times due to unwanted population growth plus commercialisation of activities.
I have seen a rather tragic sight, just outside Ahmednagar town, a couple of years ago.
There was long queue, mostly ladies and children to take water from a local well. And barely 100 m away a water tanker is irrigating a sugarcane field.
(1) Limit amount of water farmers can take so that they move out of sugarcane growing and grow other crops. (2) Systemetically, shut-down sugarcane factories so that the political gang cannot force farmers to grow sugar cane. Reduce consumption of sugar in general.
Re: there is no impasse to this
by Kersi Dotiwalla on Jun 02, 2016 04:44 PM
Shut down sugarcane factories ?? And how do you expect our poor netas to survive ?????? Work ???
should be govt employee, govt should take care of agriculture. then only we will be developed country like europeans. even sweeper is govt employee in india why not farmers, end of the day we are eating food because of them. we should not allow farmer sucide any where in india. Jai kishan.