Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Ajitsinh Malubhai Ghummad & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 11/08/2021. The challenge in the present appeal is to an order passed by the National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (Commission), January 26, 2009, whereby the revision petitions …
AHMEDABAD: To turn farmers into solar power producers for their local agricultural requirements, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) recently funded a pilot research project to promote the use of alternative sources of energy in Anand district. The experiment was launched more than two years ago at Dhundi village in …
Agroforestry is a traditional and ancient land use practice, having deliberate integration of trees with crop and livestock components. In India, agroforestry practices are prevalent in different agro-ecological zones and occupy sizeable areas. These practices have great potential for climate change mitigation through sequestration of atmospheric CO2. Carbon sequestration potential …
Six farmers join hands to harness solar energy for watering their fields and selling surplus power to the grid. Last week, a Solar Pump Irrigators’ Cooperative Enterprise (SPICE) was up and running in Dhundi, a village in Gujarat’s Anand district. Members of this cooperative — the first of its kind …
Rainfall Variability is one of the key factors that affect agricultural production in any region. Hence the proper understanding of rainfall pattern and its trends may help water resources development and to take decisions for the developmental activities of that place. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the …
Court Asks Doc To Pay For Maintenance Of Child Ahmedabad: Inspired by the government slogan of ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do', 40-year-old Madhu Solanki, a farm labourer, opted for family planning operation. But imagine her shock when she became pregnant with the third child. Solanki, who had opted for the procedure …
Gujarat is turning greener, at least in its villages. This was mainly because tree cover along fields is increasing. The recent count by the social forestry department reveals that of the 30.14 crore trees in the state, 61.05% are on farmland. There are 18.40 crore trees on farmland. Apart from …
Two villages in Anand district has been declared as "cholera-hit", a senior administration official said Saturday. "Cholera cases were found at Boria and Silvai villages of Petlad tehsil," district health officer R B Patel said. "At Boria, the surrounding area up to 10 km has also been declared as cholera-prone. …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat's child sex ratio (CSR) in the 0-6 age group has improved by seven points from 883 in 2001 to 890 in 2011. In last decade, Mehsana, the district with the lowest sex ratio of 801 girls per 1,000 boys in 2001- improved by 41 points and took its …
Ahmedabad: The milk capital Anand may figure in chief minister Narendra Modi’s speeches in Delhi for the success of Amul, but the district could be a case study for its poor human development index. The district, which saw 21 cases of swine flu and three deaths till April 8, has …
Homegrown Amul brand is all set to touch the US $ 4 billion mark. The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that markets country’s largest FMCG brand has clocked a provisional sales revenue of Rs 13,750 crore (US $ 2.55 billion) which is 18 percent more compared to last financial …
New Delhi: Union agriculture ministry has declared 17 districts of Gujarat consisting 132 talukas as drought-affected. In a reply to Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani, union minister of water resources Harish Ravat stated that the districts include Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Anand, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Kutch, Mehsana, Patan, …
The Union Government has declared 17 districts in Gujarat as drought-affected, Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has said. These districts are Vadodara, Bharuch, Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Banashkantha, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kutchh, Mehsana, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot and Surendranagar, Nathwani said in a statement issued here quoting Harish Ravat, Union …
Vadodara/Anand: Amul is all set to reach Mumbaikars’ doorsteps with one of its most modern dairy plant at Virar. “This will be the first dairy plant with fully automatic traffic management system using robots for milk packing. It will be inaugurated next month,” Amul Dairy’s managing director Rahul Kumar told …
Verghese Kurien, who passed away recently, will be best known for building Amul into one of India's most valuable brands which is an organisation of nearly three million smallholder dairy producers and a Rs 12,000 crore farmer-owned business. He will also be remembered for creating the National Dairy Development Board …
Gandhinagar: In a systematic blow to high accolades Gujarat received from the Centre over the “net increase in the mangrove cover”, reports from Jambusar in Bharuch in south Gujarat suggest that things may now be moving in the opposite direction. The reports point to the coastal areas in Gulf of …
MUMBAI: Admitting for the first time that genetically modified (GM)cotton may havehad an adverse impact on the state's farming community, the Maharashtra government has ordered a socio-economic study of the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton by the country's leading independent institutes. The survey will be carried out by the Tata Institute …
Growing demand for male children, ‘same-caste’ surrogates Unregulated fertility clinics indulge in medical malpractices, including physical and economical exploitation of women, a study has shown. Shockingly, preference for male children and demand for ‘same caste’ surrogates are prevalent in India. “Some couples, say about 5 per cent, who come to …
VADODARA: Your morning cup of tea would not fire up your sleepy senses without a little milk in it, and yet a debate has been stirred up on what should be India's national drink - tea or milk. On Saturday, deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia announced in …
Anand: The first phase of National Dairy Plan (NDP), the ambitious scheme to double India’s milk production, was launched at the headquarters of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in the country’s milk capital here on Thursday. Launched as ‘Mission Milk’, NDP proposes to usher in country’s second White Revolution. Since …
