A farmer returns with blighted wheat crop in Kacchipurva village in Banda district, Uttar Pradesh. Most farmers in the state lost their ready-to-harvest rabi crop due to unseasonal rains in February and March this year
Rahul, Athole’s brother, now faces a debt of Rs 3.5 lakh. He has replaced his entire cotton crop with sugarcane this year, hoping to get better returns
The left bank canal of Jayakwadi dam in Aurangabad, one of Maharashtra's largest dams, was built to provide irrigation to farms in drought-prone Marathwada. But the canal is almost always empty
The left bank canal of Jayakwadi dam in Aurangabad, one of Maharashtra's largest dams, was built to provide irrigation to farms in drought-prone Marathwada. But the canal is almost always empty
With no guarantee of a normal monsoon and erratic water supply from dams, farmers have installed pumps to bring water from surface and groundwater sources. This has resulted in the depletion of the water table in the parched region