The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Agartala: The autonomous Tripura Forest Development and Plantation Corporation has decided to encourage bamboo cultivation and medicinal plant and rare herb plantations besides rubber, officials said on Saturday. “The plan will be implemented across Tripura where tribals were given land pattas under Forest Right Act,” TFDPC officials said. About 1.18 …
Organic silk drapes for the classes, affordable and eco-friendly bamboo homes for the masses. Jharcraft and IIT-Delhi team up to design low-cost bamboo homes for the underprivileged, an initiative that will begin within a week. IIT-Delhi associate professor (chemical engineering) Dr Sanat Mohanty had an elaborate discussion on this with …
Finding the going uphill in their bid to sell their produce for good economic returns, raw jute farmers from different parts of South Kamrup area are facing acute crisis. Too poor to afford the input costs, the marginal farmers who practice the cultivation on a massive scale in thousands of …
Agartala: Scientists at the Van Gaveshana Sadan in Agartala, Tripura, are helping bamboo cultivators to meet the shortage of planting material available for bamboo cultivation through tissue culture propagation. Traditionally, Tripura has been dependant on other states for planting material. The tissue culture procedure is not only solving the problem …
They'll no longer be wrapping their dolls and their toys in rainforest destruction... This is a huge win Rold Skar spokesman, Greenpeace US toy giant Mattel, maker of the world-famous Barbie doll, has decided to use more environmentally friendly materials in its packaging. The decision comes after months of …
Itanagar: Farmers of several villages in Chayang Tajo and Sawa circles under East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh are spending sleepless nights following bamboo flowering on a large scale. According to official sources here on Thursday, flowering of taffo (a sub-Himalayan species of dwarf bamboo) is spreading thick and fast …
SIVASAGAR: After an assessment and review conference at the Divisional office of the District Forest department in Sivasagar with 34 chairmen and secretaries of the Forest Management Committee’s the District Forest Officer Ranjan Kumar Das told this correspondent that in a convenient location at Sivasagar town there would be a …
A tribal village in Gadchiroli that has pioneered the community management of forest land and produce, this week added a new feather in its cap — it became the first village in the country to earn a massive Rs 1-crore revenue from bamboo sales, carried out through a transparent and …
DIMAPUR: Along with the rest of the world, Dimapur celebrated World Bamboo Day on Sunday at Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency. The occasion was graced by MLA & Advisor, NBDA, L Temjen Jamir as the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, Jamir said Nagaland has 46 different varieties of bamboo species …
Right to land and forest resources still remains a distant dream for women across the country. This fact came to the fore during the concluding session of a two-day national conference on ‘Women, forest and community rights’ in Ranchi on Thursday. Around 100 women took part in the conference, which …
The Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPC) has moved the State Governments of Tripura and Manipur for sustainable supply of rawmaterial for its Cachar Paper Mill and has made arrangement to import bamboo from Bangladesh by road. Listing out measures undertaken to resolve its financial crisis, Minister for Heavy Industries and …
Although India grows more than 10 per cent of the world's tobacco, our value share of the $11-billion global tobacco leaf export trade is only 5 per cent, according to a Tobacco Institute of India (TII) study. Explaining Indian tobacco's potential, the study said, “This is because exportable varieties (FCV …
New Delhi With the rising demand for paper and paper products during the last decade, the industry has urged the government to explore possibility of using a part of the huge track of wasteland for growing trees, which would meet future wood pulp requirements. An assessment of the raw material …
HOWRAGHAT, Aug 30 – Timber smugglers have been holding sway in Karbi Anglong reserve forests. Illegal trade in timbers has been going unabated in the Karbi Anglong district. Many valuable logs are being supplied to neighbouring State of Nagaland from the district. Besides, illegal timber sawmills are growing at an …
The Rubber Board and Indian Rubber Institute (IRI) jointly organise one-day training in reclaimed rubber at Rubber Training Institute, Kottayam on September 2. The training includes general review of the reclaimed rubber sector in India, processes and types of rubber reclamation, project outline, raw materials and machinery, quality control and …
- Unions, land laws obstruct foray into trade Calcutta, Aug. 21: Tea cultivators in Tripura, hit by reducing profit margins over the years, are pushing for a shift to the economical and less labour intensive rubber plantation. However, a stringent land lease law and active labour unions in the state …
The fresh cool forest breeze and the greenery appears to act as a magic wand on the residents of village Ghati. Middle-aged men and women who just a few minutes ago had been involved in hard-core legal talk suddenly speak like children. Forty-something Gyaneshwar Sahare, who had been pouring forth …
GADCHIROLI in Maharashtra may have acquired the model district status for clearing a record number of community forest rights (CFR) claims, but its 298 villages are angry with the forest department for stripping them of the basic right to manage forest produce. The department has also burdened them with conditions, …
Gadchiroli in Maharashtra may have acquired the model district status for clearing a record number of community forest rights (CFR) claims, but its 298 villages are angry with the forest department for stripping them of the basic right to manage forest produce. http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/forest-department-s-cheat-act
Assam’s bamboo sector is all set to notch another achievement, with a local manufacturing unit gearing up to produce high-density scrimber boards. Rhino Bamboo Industry, an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, will manufacture the boards from December this year, having successfully created the boards using the pulp of the locally available …
