The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
NEW DELHI: What activities harm the 7,000km-long Indian coastline and what should be permitted? Should ports and airports be allowed to come up freely or should even small patches of mangroves be saved at all costs? Answers to such questions could soon be answered with the environment minister setting up …
Thiruvananthapuram, June 11 A joint team comprising experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, and the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode, will carry out scientific studies to improve the efficiency of the Thanneermukkom bund and the Thottappally Spillway under the
B. Muralidhar Reddy To help Sri Lanka rehabilitate war-displaced COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday urged M.S. Swaminathan, father of the Indian Green Revolution, to help the nation finalise a road map for early rehabilitation and resettlement of the war displaced in the agriculture and fisheries sectors. In …
One man stands surrounded by the debris of agricultural distress in this country: Sharad Pawar. In his second term as Agriculture Minister, he faces the formidable task of redeeming himself by solving the farm crisis that has claimed so many lives in India
KOCHI: The SCMS-Cochin has established a chair to study climate change and related environmental issues with the celebrated bio scientist Dr M S Swaminaanth as chairman of its advisory board. SCMS-Cochin claimed to be the first institution in the country to establish such a chair. The advisory board of the …
M.S.Swaminathan launches Ragi Malt of Kolli Hills Nutrition rich: Member of Parliament M.S.Swaminathan launches the Ragi Malt of Kolli Hills at a function in M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai on Tuesday. CHENNAI: Agricultural scientist and Member of Parliament M.S.Swaminathan on Tuesday suggested that the government consider including small millets that are …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan said here on Saturday that the State government or Kerala Agriculture University should take steps to establish a research and training centre on below sea-level farming at Kuttanad. Speaking on
Enhance reach of group credit, insurance: M.S. Swaminathan. Group farming would ensure equity in water and resource sharing and thereby lead to high productivity at low resources. Shobha Kannan Bolepur, April 13 There is a need to introduce the concept of group farming among small and medium farmers in order …
Indira Gandhi National Open University on Thursday launched through teleconferencing a Certificate programme in Water Harvesting and Management (CWHM). The university also made all its 60 regional centres the special programme centres (SPCs) for this programme. The learning package will be supported by audio video CDS and cassettes made available …
The mandate of the 4th World Congress of Conservation Agriculture picked up momentum on Wednesday with London-based World Bank vice-president Katherine Sierra announcing a huge package for the environmentally-friendly process. Speaking on the occasion, she said that, given the global crisis in agriculture, it was time that developing nations attach …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A price stability fund for farmers which the Finance Minister had promised and failed to deliver last fiscal year, is one of the highlights of the draft annual plan for 2009-2010, which had been approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday.
Saving ecology: M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, planting a sapling in Vellore on Sunday. Collector C. Rajendran is in the picture.
COIMBATORE: For every area of human activity, there is a need to develop technologies, which can help achieve the desired goal without associated ecological harm. Harmony with Nature should become a non-negotiable ethic, which is the basis of sustainability science, M.S. Swaminathan, MP and Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, …
Rahi Gaikwad MUMBAI: Alluding to the risks involved in agriculture and the lack of a safety net for the poor, agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan called for reducing the dependency on agriculture by half and creating employment in other sectors to push up income levels. Mr. Swaminathan was speaking here on …
Gargi Parsai, NEW DELHI: Union Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday differed on the approach to strategising adaptation to climate change, at an international conference here. The meet,
In an embarrassment for the government, two cabinet ministers, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and Vayalar Ravi, endorsed and released an international NGO-sponsored report in Delhi demanding that India impose a carbon tax on the goods it produces and take on hard time-bound greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
CHENNAI: The worrisome trends in global hunger, exacerbated by high food prices, must be tackled with a multi-pronged strategy to increase small farm productivity and profitability, raise non-farm incomes and strengthen nutrition safety nets, M.S.Swaminathan, chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, said. Outlining his strategies, Prof. Swaminathan said it …
