Rejecting the government’s claims of development, farmers successfully protested against an ethanol plant over its potential impact on ground water depletion and regional environment.

Farmers have accused the administration of dismissing their concerns about the plant’s possible impact on the local environment and scarce water resources in the arid region.

The nomadic and high invasive character that the desert locusts have taken in India this year is attributable to another fact apart from the westerly winds post Amphan, i.e. conducive condition for large scale breeding