No land ceiling for Kerala's cashew farms
The government of Kerala has decided to exempt cashew farms from land ceiling under the Land Reforms Act. The cashew industry in the state had been demanding plantation status for cashew and its
The government of Kerala has decided to exempt cashew farms from land ceiling under the Land Reforms Act. The cashew industry in the state had been demanding plantation status for cashew and its
The International Textile Manufacturers Federation's 2003 edition of the cotton contamination survey has revealed that the contamination level of all varieties in all countries evaluated has risen
It's a Catch-22 situation at the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka. While the Forest Department says that cattle grazing inside the forest is affecting wildlife in the Tiger Reserve, the economy of
This week, scientists and regulators of GM crops held forth on India's need for a robust regulatory apparatus for transgenic crops. They revisited the various "problem' areas pertaining to
Sugar cooperatives in Nashik district are grappling with an acute shortage of sugarcane brought on by insufficient rainfall for the third consecutive
The Governor, Lt. Gen. (Retd), S K Sinha has called upon agriculture scientists to evolve strategies for bringing improvement in livestock production and productivity enabling to meet the
The Shiv Sena has called for a ban on chicken slaughter after survey reports state that chickens carry 100 to 200 times more bacteria, two to four times more lead and eight to 10 times more mercury
Hyderabad has achieved another milestone in agricultural science. Six scientists from the city have developed a fool-proof technique, whereby hybrid seeds can be segregated from the deficient ones s
Complete failure of the BT cotton Bollguard-162 across 1,300 acres of land in Sabarkantha has pushed the farmers into financial losses. Sabarkantha MP Madhusudan Mistry, who immediately shot a letter
Dr H. Pathak is working as Scientist at International Rice Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi
The Department of Forests (DoF) was established in 1952, way before the start of FYPs. In 1961 the DoF was under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Forest, while Department of Agriculture (DoA) and Department
<p><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Agro-Chemical</span></strong></p> <p><img alt="Agro-chemical" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/srilanka/agrochemical_hl.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p>The Government of Sri Lanka has introduced a number of policies and programs to increase paddy production since independence. The fertilizer subsidy program is one of the longest-lasting, most expensive, and most politically sensitive policies implemented to promote rice cultivation in Sri Lanka. It was initiated in 1962 (that is, at the onset of the Green Revolution) with the main objective of encouraging farmers to switch from traditional rice varieties to high-yielding varieties (HYVs) that are highly responsive to chemical fertilizers. Since then, however, the provision of the subsidy has become customary, and successive governments have been under tremendous pressure to continue the subsidy despite budgetary constraints.</p>
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M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) is a non-profit research organization and was established in 1988. MSSRF has all along been developing and following a pro-nature, pro-poor, pro-women and pro-sustainable
ANTHRA is an organization of women veterinary scientists working primarily on issues of livestock development in the wider context of sustainable natural resource use. It is a non-profit organization registered
BAIF is committed to provide sustainable livelihood to the rural poor through management of natural resources and promotion of livestock development, watershed development and agri-horti-forestry as major
Development of Humane Action (DHAN) Foundation, a professional development organisation, was initiated on October 2, 1997. It brings highly motivated, educated young women and men to the development sector.
Professor M S Swaminathan has been acclaimed by the TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century and one of the only three from India, the other two being Mahatma Gandhi
Gene Campaign turns twenty years in 2013. Starting in 1993 as a leading research and advocacy organization, Gene Campaign dedicated itself to the conservation of genetic resources and indigenous knowledge.
Greenpeace India has been working on various issues related to the environment since 2001. Work in India is focused on four broad campaigns namely, stop climate change, sustainable agriculture, preserving