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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 6 (ANI/PRNewswire): India consumes almost a quarter of the groundwater available around the world. With the increase in population and crop demand, the requirement of water for irrigation has increased. Groundwater alone meets the majority of the water needs in agriculture. Hence, it will not be wrong to say that rural India survives on groundwater. The issue of groundwater crisis and its causes Continuous groundwater usage doesn't give it enough time to replenish itself through the natural phenomenon of rain. Most rainwater thus doesn't seep into the soil and is not stored for further usage by farmers. For this reason, groundwater levels have seen a considerable dip in the past decade. High demand for crops with the increase in population and change in eating habits of the people in India has led to a rise in the extraction of water by farmers. Drought-hit areas in the country are being affected by waterlogging Waterlogging and droughts hav ....
AgricultureUndersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research Fermin Adriano. (File photo) MANILA - The Department of Agriculture (DA) disclosed on Thursday the cunning strategy of technical smugglers following the calls of several congressmen to immediately address the alleged smuggling of palm oil products in the country. During a congressional hearing on Tuesday, some lawmakers noted the country may have already lost PHP45-billion revenue from smuggling. In a virtual press briefing, DA Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research Fermin Adriano said smugglers resort to misdeclaration to get away with tariffs through a follow-up conversion using the "refined, bleached, deodorized" (RBD) procedure. "Yun ang tinatawag nating technical smuggling, kasi 'pag na-categorize mo siya (That's what we call technical smuggling because when it is categorized as) unfit for human consumption, it's only animal feeds, automatically ang kanyang (the) tariff or tax is zero, ....