Tuesday, May 12, 2020


The nationwide lockdown due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has proved to be costly for mango farmers of Andhra Pradesh’s perennially drought-hit Rayalaseema region.
Mango comprises 48 per cent and 27 per cent of Chittoor and Anantapur’s total area under horticulture cultivation. About 80 per cent of the fruit, especially the totapuri variety, goes into making pulp.
However, the lockdown has added to the woes of mango farmers in the area. For instance, in Chittoor district, farmers have been suffering for the past two years with a glut in mangoes and the consequent fall in rates in 2018 and a drastic fall in crop in 2019.


https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/covid-19-bitter-lockdown-for-chittoor-s-mango-growers-71054

Friday, May 1, 2020



The Census 2011 has registered 4.88 lakh people as belonging to the community, which activists say is a conservative estimate. “Even by this estimate, less than 1% of the overall transgender population of the country have received NISD assistance. Most still remain out of the state’s reach, and continue to survive in most gruelling circumstances,” said Meera Sanghamitra, trans activist and convenor of the National Alliance of People’s Movements in Telangana.
 
https://thewire.in/rights/transgender-people-lockdown-coronavirus