With the consequence of climate change, it gradually extends towards inland water and soil. This scenario of gradual salinity intrusion into the coastal areas of Bangladesh is very threatening to the primary production system, coastal biodiversity and human health, said researchers. The total amount of salinity affected land in Bangladesh …
The living condition of the people of Paschim Ratiadaha part-II village under Bisondoi gaon panchayat in the far western part of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Golokganj LAC of Dhuburi district are in a deplorable state as the villagers are yet to see the development even after six decades of India's …
This is Dhirubhai Ambani's birthplace. Located right on the coast, it is one of the hundreds of villages along Gujarat's 1600-km coastline which have been inflicted by salinity of soil. Kukasvada, which has a population of 10,000, does not have sweet water wells. Villagers have stopped getting drinking water in …
the proposed dam on the Pedhi river in Maharashtra has sparked protests in the state. People of Bhatkuli tehsil in Amravati district have threatened to intensify agitation against the proposed irrigation project after they learnt that they had been "duped' about a "non-existent committee supposedly looking into the issue'. "After …
Hilaro Siquera used to own a 243-hectare farm in Divar, about 6 km from Goa's capital, Panaji. His land isn't cultivable any more: saline water has claimed most of it. Most of Siqueria's fellow cultivators work as daily wagers, their farms having been reduced to mosquito-infested swamps. Divar's 400-odd farms …
Cultivable lands in southern Bangladesh have been badly affected by saline water from the Bay of Bengal. Seawater and river water due to unplanned construction of embankments, reports the Bangladesh Observer. A survey has revealed that saline water enters Andharmanik river in Patuakhali district, although it is 46 kms away …
with about 400 units spread across the country, the sugar industry occupies a prime place in the Indian economy. The byproducts of the industry are bagasse, filter cake (pressmud) and molasses. Together they constitute about 40 per cent of the total weight of crushed cane. Of this, pressmud ( pm …
OVER the last 30 years, severe soil degradation has ravaged the state of Gujarat. If this trend continues, as much as 30 per cent of the state's land resources could be completely degraded by the turn of the century, warns a recent report of the Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC). "Increasing …
Shrimp farming is not as bad as earlier thought, says a study sponsored by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research. Aquaculture has neither increased the salinity of land nor caused large-scale deviation from agriculture, suggest the findings. Researchers from the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) conducted studies in shrimp …
Noted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna's fast, undertaken to highlight the dangers of the Tehri dam project, has lasted for more than 40 days. This is the fourth fast by the 72-year-old Chipko movement leader. The last time when the environmentalist embarked upon a 72-day fast, the then prime minister H D …
MORE THAN 6,000 ha of usar (saline) infertile land in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh have been regenerated in the last decade by the Sarvodaya Ashram, a non-governmental organisation, through community participation. Sarvodaya workers played only an advisory role and all the work was left to be done by the …
INDIA is in "imminent danger of losing a large part of its productive lands through soil salinisation", says N T Singh of the Central Soil Salinity Research Institute in Karnal. Soil salinity is natural to the subcontinent, points out Singh. Even in ancient India, in the period between 2500 BC …
