Oct 08 2020
BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Soybean farmers in central India are seeking compensation from the government after a popular locally developed seed variety proved unable to withstand the erratic rains and pest attacks that hit the region this monsoon season.
Sep 04 2020
SAGAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Basant Ahirwar worked as an expert mason in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state before the country's coronavirus lockdown shut down business and forced him to return, jobless and largely on foot, to his home in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state.
Jul 05 2018
IGLAS, India, July 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Khuba
Chand increasingly finds himself alone in Iglas, a
drought-parched village in the Bundelkhand region of India's
Madhya Pradesh state.
Jun 29 2016
BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Imrat Namdev and her younger sister Pushpa Namdev were neighbors in Chhatarpur district, in the drought-hit Indian region of Bundelkhand. Both relied on the same well for water and, according to police, frequently quarreled over how much the other was using.
May 09 2016
TIKAMGARH, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in this drought-parched city in central India have deployed round-the-clock armed guards at a river-fed community reservoir to prevent farmers from siphoning the remaining water for irrigation.
Feb 17 2016
JHANSI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Karna, a farmer from Badgaon village in northern India, has few options but to sell his blood for money, after persistent drought left him unable to live off his land.
Oct 09 2015
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shanti Kushwaha waits anxiously for the water tanker to reach the slums of Seelampur in India's capital New Delhi, bringing a scarce and fought-over essential.
Oct 09 2015
NEW DELHI, Oct 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shanti
Kushwaha waits anxiously for the water tanker to reach the slums
of Seelampur in India's capital New Delhi, bringing a scarce and
fought-over essential.
May 20 2015
MOHANPURA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lal Singh was desperate.
May 20 2015
MOHANPURA, India, May 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lal
Singh was desperate.