The crisis has underscored the problems facing Indian agriculture as the population expands at the same time that water resources come under greater pressure. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via New York Times (Most Emailed)
India’s new economy may be based on software, services and high technology, but hundreds of millions of Indians still look to the sky for their livelihoods; more than half the country’s 1.1 billion people depend on agriculture for a living even though agriculture represents only about 17 percent of the total economy.
