Issue: October 2016
 
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Textiles’ – the word brings up images of beautiful drapes – cotton, silk, chiffon, lace. Whether it is the material draped on the figurine of the lady f...
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Textiles the word brings up images of beautiful drapes cotton, silk, chiffon, lace. Whether it is the material draped on the figurine of the lady from Mohenjadaro, the stylish drapes of Cleopatra, the ball dance gowns of the Victorian Era or the lovely dresses worn by our own queens and princesse...

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  Tapping Sustainable Energy Alternatives
  The second lead article, which is also focus article, is written by Shri N Bhadran Nair. Citing a report of the World Health Organisation, the author has advocated for tapping sustainable energy alternatives
  Financing Renewables in India
  The third article is written by Shri P C Maithani, Adviser, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. He has focussed on renewable energy resources
  Steps to Achieve India’s Solar Potential
  The special article is written by Sumant Sinha, Chairman and Managing Director of ReNew Power. He opines that India must also honour its global commitments on curbing greenhouse gas emissions
Water Security: way to achieve sustainable food security
Dinabandhu Karmakar

India’s per capita food grain availability has gone down since 1991 even though there has been net addition of about 60 million hectares to agricultural land during the last half of the last century. Food production has gone up. Rice production has gone up by 350 percent and wheat production has gone up more than 800 percent. However, production of millets and pulses has gone down to give space to wheat and rice. These successes, however, primarily remain limited to the irrigated areas. It is projected that India’s population will be 1409 million in 2026 (in the next 13 years) and about 1600 million by 2051. The challenge before the nation is how to feed this additional population? With a largely rural (70 percent) and agrarian (60 percent) population, the state of agriculture and more broadly the farm sector hugely impacts livelihoods and therefore rural poverty in India. Three-fourths of the rural poor depend on monocropped ‘rain-fed’ farming, a highly uncertain enterprise. Productivity and the value of farm output in the rainfed regions are well below sustainable potential and the national averages even though over half the region is sub-humid (over 900 mm rainfall). Beyond some pockets, farming in rain-fed areas mostly revolves around subsistence, a very small fraction of farming families produce enough to feed themselves.

 
 
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