Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution.
3,100 houses to be built under model fishing village project, says Minister Ports and Fisheries Minister K. Babu said here on Thursday that work on the Valiyathura harbour would commence after the ongoing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was completed. Inaugurating the distribution of financial assistance for house construction under the Model Fishing Village project at Valiyathura, Mr. Babu said the EIA had been handed over to L&T Ramboll. The project report for the Rs.61.41-crore project was already completed and once the EIA was available, work would start without delay, he said.
An abrupt release of toxic chemicals into the Kalri Baghar (KB) feeder through its link canal has resulted in mass deaths of fish and other wetland species in Thatta district, sources told Dawn here on
The fish harvest in 2012 increased by 54,000 metric tons compared to last year, with a harvest of 488,340 metric tons. This is the largest fish harvest recorded in the history of the Sri Lankan fisheries
Mauritania has banned the use of plastic bags to protect the environment and the lives of animals and fish. More than 70% of cattle and sheep who die in the capital, Nouakchott, are killed by eating
The statistical year book being published by the Central Statistics Office for past several years is one of the vital instruments designed to meet the ever growing diversified range information requirement.
The key objectives of the Environment Master Plan are to enable the State of Himachal Pradesh to: Simultaneously address issues of ecological and environment restoration and bring convergence along with
Bihar statistical hand book is a biennial publication of the Directorate. Bihar statistical handbook 2012 is designed to give a synoptic view of the state economy through statistics. It incorporates
KARWAR: While the sand mining and transport lobby is keen to get the Karnataka government to resume the extraction and transportation of sand to Goa, there is resentment from some quarters in Karwar over the resumption of the sand trade to Goa. Addressing a press conference at the Government Rest House here, Advocate B S Pai warned that residents of Karwar would strongly oppose the resumption of sand supply to Goa.
A GM salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America's powerful food-safety watchdog
A GM salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America’s powerful food-safety watchdog
