#drought

Collection of drought news, found 780 news.

Aid agency MSF pulls foreign staff from Kenyan camp

Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres said Friday it has pulled all its foreign staff from Kenya`s Dadaab refugee camp ...

news focus: govt to rehabilitate critically degraded lakes

Hundreds of lakes or reservoirs which are vital to human life in Indonesia are now in bad or even critical condition ...

Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Kenya

Somali Islamist Shebab rebels on Thursday kidnapped two female Spanish aid workers from Kenya`s Dadaab refugee camp, ...

news focus: haze should not disturb upcoming SEA Games

The 26th SEA Games organizing committee is still working hard to prepare everything needed for the successful conduct ...

Fires raze 200 hectares of forest area in C. Java

Fires have razed a total of 200 hectares of forest area in the current dry season in Central Java, a provincial ...

Rice fields need better infrastructures

Indonesia needs to develop its dams and irrigation to overcome desolation during droughts so that the country`s 7.5 ...

RI govt to speed up paddy planting amid drought

In spite of the drought, the government is ready to begin paddy planting this month, in an effort to cover this year`s ...

Bulog expected to conduct market operations in various regions

Due to a long drought that caused crop failures, State Logistics Agency (Bulog) is expected to conduct rice ...

Some 38 hectares of paddy field in E. Java facing crop failure

Some 38 hectares of paddy field in East Java province are facing crop failure due to the current dry season, an ...

news focus: No need to worry about this year`s drought

The current drought which had caused water crises and affected 95,891 hectares of rice fields in the country is ...

Drought affected 95,391 hectares of rice fields in 2011 : Minister

Drought has affected 95,891 hectares of rice fields in various regions in Indonesia from January to August this year ...

Bali to allocate 200 tons of rice to anticipate drought

The Bali provincial administration plans to allocate 200 tons of rice to anticipate a food shortage as a result of ...

Drought escalates to all districts in E Java

The Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has recorded that the drought in East Java has spread to 29 districts ...

Minister calls for greenhouse gas emission reduction to overcome drought

Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said reducing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the long-term efforts to ...

PMI to distribute water to drought-affected regions

The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) will distribute clean water to 15 drought-affected districts/cities in five ...