First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Urea coated with neem
there is some good news for farmers. Delhi-based National Fertilisers Limited (nfl) has started manufacturing urea coated with neem oil. Fifty field trials conducted in three states show positive
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Farm reform
Open markets, land on lease
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In short
monsoon forecast: India will receive normal monsoon rainfall in 2005, the Indian Meterological Department (IMD) predicted on April 20, 2005. Union science and technology minister Kapil Sibal said
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No pesticides
Farmers <i>can</i> save crops without pesticides. And they <i>can</i> earn more in the deal. <font class="UCASE">sopan joshi </font> records a great change sweeping through Andhra Pradesh. It’s called non-pesticidal management, or NPM
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Inedible India
<img src="../files/images/20070331/30.jpg" ="inedible" align="left"/> Eating habits, cooking habits, cuisines have changed, are changing, across the country, across social strata, across the rural-urban divide. And for anybody’s money, it isn’t a change to inspire confidence in the future of public health.<br>
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Mining firms set up shop in Orissa
Lanjigarh block, Kalahandi, Orissa, May 17 At its summit, the northeastern ridge of the Niyamgiri hill range has a bald patch, typical of hilltops with bauxite deposits. A dense tree cover that provides a welcome shade to climbers struggling some 8 km up
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Drought fails to crush a Bundelkhand village
Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region has been devastated by drought and other adverse weather conditions over the past four years. Madhaiya Anghela village in Madhogarh sub-division of Jalaun district
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Bauxite mines in Andhra Pradesh draw tribals' ire
Tribal residents of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh, are preparing to protest a proposed smelting project that will affect five villages in the district. Despite a formal resolution against
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MoEF s flip flop
On the eve of his retirement on June 29, director general of forests M K Sharma announced that the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) was going to let private parties breed and harvest
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Cancun redux
Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial see: <a href="editor.asp?foldername=20031015&filename=Editor&sec_id=2&sid=1"><font color=red>"How not to lose all"</font></a>, October 1