The Indian government is consistently trying to end Jhum cultivation in the North-East with “settled” cultivation by allocating funds, plants and providing support for the transformation. However, the ...

Just a few years ago, jhum farming defined the landscape of Chimbuk's hillside areas of Sualok and Tongbati in Bandarban Sadar upazila. Farmers cleared forest patches, burned undergrowth, and planted ...

The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from ...

ADILABAD: For decades, the contentious issue of podu (shifting forest land) cultivation has remained unresolved in the erstwhile Adilabad district, despite repeated assurances from successive state ...

wNIZAMABAD: The multi-dimensional problems surrounding podu land cultivation in Telangana has thrown up a less-talked-about issue, that of some unscrupulous forest department staff, unable to stop ...

Months of hard work — clearing the slopes, sowing seeds, and tending the crops — have paid off, turning the once-barren hills into a lush, green landscape now glowing with ripened rice and crops. With ...