In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses amounted to US$202.7 billion. The 2023 earthquake in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic was the most catastrophic event …
function graph() { var popurl="files/images/20050731/26-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=300,scrollbars=yes") } Here is a piquant contradiction: forest-rich states in India are beginning to grumble about the natural wealth they possess, and are protecting. In his speech to the 12 th Finance Commission (fc), Virbhadra Singh, chief minister of Himachal Pradesh
Punjab peasantry is in the clutches of severe indebtedness. To overcome the problem of debt trap, effective measures should be taken by the government, social organisations and farming community. The government should exercise a strong check on the activities on non-institutional credit agencies and provide institutional credit facilities to the …
One of the serious and unrelenting problems faced by the Indian farmers households has been indebtedness. Despite substantial improvement in agricultural output as well as distribution of credit through institutional sources since the introduction of the new agricultural technology, indebtedness among the farmers households is found to be widespread even …
The Bundelkhand region of India is a semi-arid plateau, which consists of twelve districts of northern Madhya Pradesh and five districts of southern Uttar Pradesh. The region suffers from severe ecological degradation induced primarily by the factors such as soil degradation and deforestation. Temporary and long-term migration of villagers from …
The authors in this paper present a factual and a brief review of the extreme weather events that occurred in India during the last 100 years (1991-2004). The socio-economic impacts of the extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, hail storm, thunderstorm, heat and cold waves have been increasing …
Bhola Singh is dead... Bhola Singh was a farmer from village Balloh, district Bhatinda, Punjab. He is part of a story with a beginning and an end. But it has no middle. Thus what follows is a fragment. But it is not fiction. Punjab practices intensive agriculture that needs pesticides. …
indian farmers are neck-deep in debt. Of the 89.35 million farmer households in the country, 43.42 million (48.6 per cent) are reeling under the yoke, says a recent survey report of the National Sample Survey Organisation (nsso), under the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation. The report was released …
Detergents, their environment concerns and the regulations to control them have evolved side by side in the developed world. Detergents were developed during the Second World War. They became popular in the late 1950s and the first regulation to control their environmental impact was enacted in 1961 in Germany. So …
• More than 1,500 new chemicals are introduced annually the world over, that is, more than 4 chemicals daily • Total number of chemicals known to exist
function table() { var popurl="images/20050531/37.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=510,height=470,scrollbars=yes") } The Bhakra Nangal dam project is an icon. Policy-makers, media persons and even ordinary people very often credit it with bringing about the Green Revolution. The irrigation waters from the extensive canal network of the project situated on the river Sutlej in Himachal …
function map() { var popurl="files/images/20050515/34-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=620,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } 168 dams. 34,920 mw. That is the hydroelectric power potential in the northeast, as per the Union ministry of power. s lp is just one of them, but shows how subterfuge, dirty politicking, lobbying and trouble such a project can get mired in, …
Study was conducted to gain a better understanding on the impact of tiger attacks on people by tigers from the Sundarbans. From the study, it was observed that the highest number of tiger attacks occurred in Shatkhira and lowest in Khulna range.
At its request, Spices Board was permitted to undertake development of vanilla and is engaged in this endeavour to add another item to the spice export basket. It has only few exclusive vanilla related programmes and they are supply of subsidized planting materials and on farm curing aids.
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