Cattle disease in Shariatpur
Cattle disease is spreading in six upazilas of the district in the absence of proper treatment facilities.The livestock sources said that 50 cattlehead died of the disease within a few days and more
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ADB may double agriculture business loan to Pakistan to $200 million
A 5-member Asian Development Bank (ADB) visiting mission has conveyed to the officials in Islamabad during their meetings here that agri business promotion loan to Pakistan could be extended from
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GOs place agriculture under ZP purview
In a sudden and surprising move, the Andhra Pradesh state government has transferred the beleaguered agriculture sector to the local bodies with immediate effect. According to the GO, the government
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Plea to increase funding for agricultural research
Ringing alarm bells for adequate funding of research and development programme in agricultural universities, president of the Indian agricultural universities association Dr. I V Subbha Rao has
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Experts agree to disagree on crop rotation
Between the five hours that elapsed, two sets of scholars with opinions at times often contrary to each other talked of the Punjab agriculture crisis. If the Punjab CM Capt. Amarinder Singh has been
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Defeated by coconut mite, farmers now turn to vanilla cultivation
After being defeated by the coconut mite disease and the areca price crash, farmers in Tumkur district were searching for a new commercial crop to cultivate. They have found one.Most coconut and
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Draft for biotechnology regulation proposed
Enhanced transparency and participatory approach to regulate commercialization of transgenic plant varieties were among the recommendations at the four-day international workshop on transgenic rice
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Drug giants scour forests in Australia
It's Australia's new gold rush. Fortune-hunting scientists are scouring tropical rain forests for plants to produce new antibiotics and other drugs that could be worth billions of dollars. 'Australia
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Goa cancer society to request govt. to introduce gutkha ban
The Goa Cancer Society will impress upon the state government to introduce a 'Maharashtra-like' ban on the manufacture, sale, storage or distribution of gutkha, joint secretary of the society Dr.
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EU candidates set to learn of farm subsidies
The final lap of European Union enlargement negotiations starts when the 10 candidate countries due to join in 2004 will be told how much in farming subsidies they will receive until 2013.
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NGOs go easy on anti-cracker campaign this time
NGOs are not ready to spoonfeed schools in their annual anti-crackers campaign any more. Unlike the last few years when almost all schools were being approached by NGOs to launch such campaigns,
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'Cracker cops' on the move
Shopkeepers selling crackers, beware! There is a "cracker police" doing the rounds of the city and those found flouting the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) norms will be reported to the local
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Selling climate tech with the Brits
Climate change is perhaps the biggest challenge facing our civilization, affecting as it does every sector. Economic dimensions of its impact are better understood now than a decade ago. With
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Why pollution is not always bad
A closer look at data indicating pollution levels around the world reveals some interesting facts. People living in developed countries on an average consume more fossil fuel pollutants than their
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Canadian PM wants to ratify Kyoto by end - December
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, brushing aside protests from the country's provincial governments, said this week he intends to ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change by the end of the
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Dirty dealing in Delhi
The Bush administration has never disguised its contempt for the Kyoto protocol, which aims to curb global warming. George Bush pulled out of the climate change deal on arriving in office, saying it
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Black rain poses problems
Spectacular images of red hot streams of lava incinerating pine trees like match sticks quickly reached the four corners of the world after reports that Sicily's mount Etna was erupting again. But
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'This Diwali won't be less noisy'
Diwali may not be less noisy even this year. A government owned technical laboratory has found that most firecrackers exceed the noise limit. 'Firecrackers that do not flout the noise limit are still
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Hunger kills 12 MP tribals
More than 12 tribals most of them children, have reportedly died because of malnutrition and various ailments in some villages of Vidisha district adjoining Bhopal over the past month. The deaths
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UNEP's Asian brown cloud report inconclusive : Govt
New Delhi has stated that there is a need to conduct further experiments in the Indian Ocean to assesses the impact of climate change on the monsoons and the weather patterns in the region. The