This Powering Livelihoods market research report provides insights on the market potential for hydroponics fodder units - a vertical farming technology to manufacture green fodder. The usage of solar power provides a unique value proposition and reliability for these 100 per cent renewable energy-based products. The report highlights key geographies …
Baramati: In a region where farmers either work in the fields or breed cows, milk production is the indicator for the impact of the drought on the latter section. Many dairy farmers in Baramati’s so-called dry zone have sold their cows in the absence of enough water to feed them …
Bangalore: Power struggle, politicking and blame game are keeping state BJP leaders busy. And there is no one to pay attention to the problems faced by drought-hit people in the districts. The chief minister, his colleagues and party legislators should have been helping out people of 123 drought-affected taluks. Instead, …
In the present study an estimation of livestock enteric CH4 emission has been made from feeding systems (diets) for different animal functions (maintenance, production and growth) prevailing in different agroecological regions (AERs) of India using livestock population 2003. Estimations comprised of dietary intake, digestibility and CH4 emission factors for ruminant …
Carrying capacity (CC) in the context of Indian agriculture, denotes the number of people and livestock an area can support on a sustainable basis. CC is dynamic in nature, varying from time to time based on utilization of resources, technology application and management. In India, rainfed agriculture occupies nearly 58% …
Patna: Bihar government has launched five schemes under fodder development project to provide adequate fodder for the cattle in Bihar, state Animal Husbandry Minister Giriraj Singh said today. Replying to short notice questions by RJD MLC Nawal Kishore Yadav and others in the legislative council, Singh said the schemes were …
The field experiment was conducted during the year 2001 to 2006 on marginal degraded bouldery riverbed lands of Doon Valley in North-West India under rainfed conditions. The performance of grasses viz Panicum maximum (fodder grass) and Eulaliopsis binata (industrial grass for fiber and paper pulp) was evaluated alone and in …
Andhra Pradesh will request a Central assistance of Rs 3,006 crore towards drought relief according to the revised norms, the Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, has said. While seeking liberal assistance, the Chief Minister told a nine-member Central team that the State would send a revised request soon. …
Mumbai is in reality a city of places that are not a part of the current set of fantasies that rule the minds of urban planners but are yet integrally linked to capitalist processes, to urban practices of place-making and to urbanism itself. From this perspective, this enquiry seeks not …
More than 800 villages in the districts of Satara and Sangli were officially declared scarcity-hit by the state government following severe shortage of water and fodder. New divisional commissioner, Prabhakar Deshmukh, made the announcement to the media in the city on Wednesday. According to Deshmukh, the failure of winter monsoon …
The Punjab Government today ordered a special girdawari to assess the damage to the cotton, paddy and fodder crops, and that also to the houses, due to the recent rain and floods. Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Darbara Singh Guru announced this during a visit to the flood-hit areas of …
BERHAMPUR: A herd of 30 wild elephants continue to unleash a reign of terror in Ganjam district putting the Forest Department officials in a tizzy. After several futile attempts to curb movement of the animals, the Berhampur forest division has now come up with an action plan to tackle the …
The National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project was launched at Vadavathur village, Erumapatti block, Namakkal district recently. NICRA has been promoted in the XI five year plan by ICAR constituent unit Central Research Institute for Dry Land Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad. This project is being implemented in 100 districts …
Forest department proposes plantation to check elephant menace The forest department has proposed a food paradise on the island of Majuli to rein in depredating elephants. Jorhat range officer Pankaj Kalita said the department has submitted a Rs 43-lakh proposal to Dispur to plant trees on 123 hectares of land …
The lack of high quality agroforestry tree germplasm has long been recognized as one of the major challenges to widespread adoption of agroforestry in Southern Africa. Productivity levels realized in operational scale plantings are far less than those demonstrated in research and this has been partly blamed on the use …
Forests provide multiple benefits to the society, which are both direct and indirect. A study was conducted in Dehradun and Tehri districts to quantify and assess the economic value of various provisioning services which local people derive from the forest to meet their day to day requirement.
Necessity is indeed the mother of invention. True to the adage, the innovative farmers of Gudibande have taken challenges to seek a solution to redress their evergreen drought problem bogging their taluk. And they have become successful in it. Gudibande taluk, of late, has earned the notorious tag of being …
New fodder plan will be jointly implemented by the centre and states and will be ready by March The government is working on a plan to increase the area under fodder crop, which it hopes will help raise livestock yield. The proposal is likely to be included in the Union …
This new forest policy for Jammu & Kashmir describes various strategies for sustainable management of forest resources. It also emphasises on enhancement of forest carbon stocks and provides for 100 percent incentives flow to the local community. Jammu and Kashmir Government launched this new forest policy aimed at conserving biodiversity, …
