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 …
l Trials will be conducted under the aegis of ICAR under different agro-climatic conditions. l Will address field-level integrated pest and varietal management issues. l MAHYCO can conduct field trials on farmers' fields in an area of about 100 hectares under close supervision of GEAC and Monitoring and Evaluation Committee …
Mumbai-based Maridi Ecotherm Systems has signed up with two hospital associations in Bangalore for hospital waste management (HWM) project at a cost of Rs 3.50 per bed. The proposal is currently awaiting the clearance of the state pollution control board. The firm's five-crore plant on about two hectares, about 50 …
What message does the GEAC decision send? The members could not reach a consensus on the commercialisation of Bt cotton. Some members were not convinced with the results of the previous trials. So we decided for another round of field trials. DBT is a supporter of Bt cotton technology. Doesn't …
Petroleum minister Ram Naik typifies everything that is wrong with our political system today - a system which formulates public policies not because of public good but because of political lobbies. In the last few days, newspapers have carried articles by Ram Naik praising the use of ethanol as a …
The Cochin-based directorate of cashewnut and cocoa development has asked all cashew corporations in Kerala to stop aerial spraying of the endosulfan pesticide. The directions were given following the publication of data, which proved that the continuous spraying of endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of Kerala (PCK) at Padre village …
Last week, us president and oilman George Bush made his first statement on global warming, which has shocked environmentalists and European governments. But what we must realise is that his position, howsoever Neanderthal, is well calculated, strategic and frankly no different from the earlier us administration. Writing a letter to …
If there is any lesson that the Indian government needs to learn from Seattle it is that it must learn to work with its own civil society. While all our politicians and press commentators may remain focussed on economic issues like 'market access' and 'market control', it is ultimately the …
Arsenic has been found in groundwater in seven districts of West Bengal covering an area 37,493 km having about 34 million population. Our survey indicates that 560 villages are arsenic-affected and more than a million people are drinking arsenic contaminated water and more than 200,000 people are suffering from arsenic-related …
