Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Gaurav Sharma The situation is not as bad yet but Gujarat looks all set to get its own Nandigram and Singur. The Narendra Modi government is currently facing stiff resistance from villagers in at least five districts against its decision to hand over agricultural and grazing lands to industrial houses. …
Without land, big projects will not take off. Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee must be happy that she has managed to stall the Land Acquisition as well as Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bills in Cabinet, prospective pieces of legislation that would have set the rules for industry to acquire land for …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI The Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2007 might see some key changes in case the government agrees to modify it following the objections raised by railway minister and Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee. Ms Banerjee, a key ally of the Congress in UPA-2, is pushing for three changes in the …
PRANMOY BRAHMACHARI BERHAMPORE, WEST BENGAL The land for the proposed Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus has been identified at the Farakka Barrage project, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee announced. A team of AMU officials headed by vicechancellor P.K. Abdul Azis visited the land spread over 267 acres. "This is the …
India has lost a forest area of over 6.5 lakh hectares in the last three decades. Of this, 25,000 hectares of land was diverted per annum for infrastructural and other projects. Giving the details on lost forest area, environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday described the recent order by the …
July 14: The Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) has informed the AP High Court that 4,067 acres of forest land at Mamidipally and Kancha Imarath in Ranga Reddy district were de-reserved for non-forest purpose before the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 came into force. The APIIC allotted part of this …
This article analyses tourism in Sikkim, a small Himalayan state of India, in light of the most general kind of tourism process models and tourist influx trends. The tourism trends are studied to map the state of progress and prospects of tourism in the state, and for the general understanding …
The study of land-use pattern using remote sensing is a popular tool for researchers after the advent of high-resolution multispectral imagery. While most of the study deals with monitoring of vegetation, soil moisture and bare lands using visible, SWIR and TIR bands, little effort has been given to integrated study …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: The Economic Survey has painted the Agriculture sector in a rather bleak picture with a sudden drop in the growth rate during 2008-09 to just about 1.6 percent. The Agriculture sector had recorded an average growth of about 4.9 per cent over three years, from 2005-06 …
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year.
The UNFCCC Secretariat has released a note (FCCC/WEB/SAI/2009 3) on the synthesis and assessment report on the greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories submitted in 2009. The purposes of the synthesis and assessment are to facilitate the consideration of inventory data and other information across parties, and to identify issues for further …
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Wednesday assured a delegation of Citizens Welfare Committee (CWC) that he would instruct the Inspector of City survey and Land Records to conduct a fresh survey of Margao and Fatorda to put in place a land use map of the Town. The Chief Minister gave …
July 1: Property buyers in rural areas can now breathe easy as the state government has decided to revise the rates of agricultural lands. The agricultural lands are currently classified into 56 categories to determine the property value by levying stamp duty. They will now be classified under two categories. …
An attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the relationship between urbanisation and agricultural growth in India. Agriculture is the mainstay of Indian economy because of its high share in employment and livelihood creation notwithstanding its reduced contribution to the nation's gross domestic product.
The recent third world urbanisation is concentrated in the rural peripheries of the largest cities and its implications for land and livelihood in the peri-urban areas is discussed in this article. In an attempt to understand the extent to which the rural workers residing in the vicinity of the six …
