Chasing receding water tables: How Indian farmers are digging themselves into a deeper hole (The Financial Express)
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11.06.18
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The Financial Express published an op-ed authored by IFPRI research fellow Avinash Kishore on over-reliance of Indian farmers on groundwater. In the op-ed, Kishore argues improving water-use efficiency is essential to increasing farmers’ income and reducing their vulnerability to climate change.
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