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. …
The state government will soon come up with a comprehensive soil nutrient map that will have details of the various types of soil found in the state. The map is expected to be complete by September this year. The map will help improve production of food grains in the state …
Check sand mining, HC directs govt DH News Service,Bangalore: A division bench of the High Court has directed the Government to prevent sand mining in one kilometre radius of bridges across the rivers in the State. M T Sachin, a resident of Bethri in Kodagu had moved the Court alleging …
The present work reports on the habitat characteristics of some weeds of pulses crop field. Reported weeds are more adapted in the Gangetic alluvium soil under certain climatic factors.
Asserting that the Department of Agriculture has succeeded in ensuring optimum utilisation of funds allocated by the Central Government in the recent past, Commissioner of the department concerned, JP Meena yesterday stated that the process of soil mapping to further boost agricultural production is on. At a press conference, the …
Farmers around Bangalore excavate soil for builders An ecological imbalance is brewing in Bangalore district because farmers, who have hit upon desperate times, are seeking desperate measures. Driven by drought, farmers here have taken to digging, washing and sieving the topsoil of their farms for sand. They sell it to …
The impressive growth of consumption of fertilizer in India in the post-green revolution period ensured increase in foodgrain production from 74.0 million tonnes (MT) in 1966-67 to 209.8 MT during 1999-2000. Production has been ranging between 174 MT to 216 MT, during the last 7 years and the rate of …
of greenhouse gases, is of major concern in terms of the global warming phenomenon. To mitigate the effect of atmospheric CO2, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been found to be an important tool. The present study aims at explaining the role of soils as one of the most important …
Getting farmers to adopt new technologies to address soil erosion and fertility problems is not easy. In Vietnam, a multidisciplinary research project to improve soil management in traditional mountainous agricultural farming systems managed to attract farmers' interest and stop soil erosion. This success stems from encouraging farmers, extensionists and researchers …
Soil is often viewed as a physical substrate that performs a wide range of functions that also go beyond agriculture. It regulates water, sustains plant and animal life, recycles organic wastes, cycles nutrients, filters out pollutants, and serves as a physical support for structures. Yet, soil is also a living …
The present study aims at assessing the influence of different vegetal covers, changes in landuse pattern and heterogeneity of physical fractions of the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool on soil carbon. A tropical sanctuary area with some anthropogenic activities was taken as the study area.
Soil would be analysed and data recorded on cards for further maintenance Farmers in Haryana henceforth will be able to not just judge the health of their soil, but also improve its fertility with the help of soil cards to be issued to them. In an innovative move, the Haryana …
A potential new weapon in the battle against global warming - to remove carbon from the atmosphere by locking it up permanently in soil minerals - is being developed at Newcastle University in the UK. When plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, they use some of the …
Fine roots (those with diameters <2.0 mm) serve at least two roles of global importance: They act as conduits transporting carbon (C) into belowground C pools, and they acquire soil resources.
After decades of promoting urea to increase soil fertility, the government has begun to acknowledge that it has achieved quite the opposite. The fact is soil fertility in parts of India is declining because of excessive and imbalanced use of fertilizers. And this confession has come from none other than …
Organic is happening in the wetlands of Hollagaru village in Shimoga district of Karnataka. The high production of arecanut, paddy, vanilla and coffee has changed the fortunes of the local farming community. There are about 200-300 farmers in the village. Each owns between one and two acres of land. The …
biodiversity-rich Amazon is more like a desert when it comes to soil microbes, while an arid desert is a teeming microbial Amazon, two us researchers have found. Noah Fierer and Robert Jackson of Duke University studied the diversity of soil bacteria in 98 locations in South and North America and …
