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Dry Farming in India
Dry farming, also known as rainfed Agriculture, is a popular sustainable farming practice. In this approach, we farmers produce crops in their area with limited rainfall without depending on irrigation. The approach has been in use for centuries and is mainly used in india, where large areas of land are in drought situations. It is an essential part of Indian farming as it encompasses around 60 per cent of the cultivated lands.
By Rajendra_Singh14 days ago in The Swamp
Enumeration Enumerated
I need to explain what I did. When I was in my twenties, I went from job to job very quickly. Most of the money I made went toward a plan to help me all the way through school, although I still managed to waste some of it. Knowing that I could jump from one lousy job to another without much difficulty helped…for a while. I am not sure where this confidence came from, but it did allow me to create a list of over twenty jobs when someone asked how many types of employment I had in those early years.
By Kendall Defoe 14 days ago in The Swamp
Downtown Clearwater Library is a controversy
I've resided in Clearwater since 2010. I've worked at many places that no longer exist here like the Steak n Shake on U.S. 19 and the little telemarketing office that once employed me near Ulmerton and 66th. I've also worked for places that still do exist like Postcardmania and Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Gandy Beach (the way it was) is gone, transformed into a mangrove preserve. Our Pinellas County public libraries are either improving or vanishing. The Clearwater officials (regarding the downtown library) decided to go with improvements, but the million dollar ampitheater project came with much controversy including the resignation of a mayor.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman14 days ago in The Swamp
Baby Tyler: Victim of Lancaster County PA's Injustice System
Meet Baby Tyler. He's four months old and already caught in the cruel web of a system that seems more interested in punishment than rehabilitation. Tyler's parents are currently in jail in Lancaster County, PA, not for heinous crimes but for minor probation violations. Violations that could have been avoided if they had the support they desperately needed.
By Sunshine Firecracker15 days ago in The Swamp
It's June the Nineteenth
It’s June the nineteenth. Who cares? Who should care? Every American who values and holds onto the truths that are self-evident should at least care. Even if no one celebrates through barbecues and reading stories of old, it must be said that this date is insufficient to people like the late Mae Louise Miller (neé Wall). Yes, we can say hooray for the fact that the Union officers at Galveston Texas greeted the slaves and told them about their emancipation. We must, however, be able to recognize Miss Miller and others who survived peonage, or work for little or no pay and off the books, well into the twenty-first century.
By Skyler Saunders15 days ago in The Swamp
Did Donald Trump Create The Apex Of Post-Shame Culture?
New York State: "Never back down": The rich and the powerful are exploiting a post-shame society, and it's popularity is growing. Where once the powerful stepped down, now they hang on for dear life until the elephant in the room dissapears.
By Rootbound Homestead15 days ago in The Swamp
Okavango River
Most rivers in the world flow into the sea, but the Okavango in Africa defies gravity by taking its massive waters right into the Kalahari Desert. Starting in the highlands of Angola, the Okavango runs for over 1,000 miles like any normal river before dropping into the largest inland delta on Earth known as the Okavango Swamp. The delta has land slopes dropping at nearly 150 ft, about half the height of the Statue of Liberty. The area where the Okavango Delta is now used to be part of a lake that dried up around 2,000 years ago. It takes several months for the Okavango water to complete its journey, and the landscape is constantly changing. The first European to discover the delta was the Scottish explorer David Livingston, who was astonished to see the water seemingly flowing backward and uphill, with two strong watercourses connecting the Okavango to the surrounding area.
By OPIO DENNIS15 days ago in The Swamp
BBC Poll Tracker.. Content Warning.
If you can manage to tear yourself away from the 'EUROs' then you may want to look at the 'BBC Poll Tracker'. We have seen the party leaders all vying for our vote on BBC, Sky, ITV, etc. Do these performances affect the way people vote? The answer to that is yes, it must do. These leader's debates give us the chance to see what these party leaders are like. When they are faced with hard-faced presenters/interviewers and a live audience. Although, no doubt, the audience's questions are already screened. As to whether the party leaders know what the interviewer/presenter is going to ask them, that's an interesting one.
By Nicholas Bishop16 days ago in The Swamp
Wheat Farming (Golden Harvest) in India
Wheat is a golden grain in the Indian agricultural economy. It is scientifically known as Triticum Aestivum and belongs to the Poaceae family. Wheat plays a necessary role in the Indian agriculture sphere and supplies nutrition security to millions of people. It is one of the most produced crops in India and is also used as a staple produce for many food products, such as bread, pasta, and cereals.
By Rajendra_Singh17 days ago in The Swamp