Chandigarh, March 30 (IANS) For decades, Punjab’s agricultural landscape has followed a familiar pattern — wheat during winter and paddy in summer. While this cycle once played a vital role in ensuring the nation’s food security, it is now under pressure. Challenges such as shrinking landholdings, rising input costs, declining groundwater levels, and unpredictable weather have made monoculture increasingly unsustainable, especially for small and marginal farmers.In response to these challe…
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Rajouri, March 8 (IANS) The National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) is playing a vital role in empowering rural women and creating sustainable livelihood opportunities in the border district of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. The scheme is helping poor and below poverty line families, especially women, to become financially independent through the formation of Self Help Groups (SHGs) and small-scale livelihood units across different blocks of the district.Under the initiative, the NRLM departmen…