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. …
A study was undertaken in the established benchmark soil series in different agro-ecological sub-regions of Black Soil Regions of India with the objective to assess the urease activity as a function of soil depth, bio-climate, cropping system and land use type. The urease activity declined with increase in soil depth. …
Madhya Pradesh government had asked Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) to focus on dismantling of abandoned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, claimed Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) representative, here on Thursday. "The terms of reference given by the state government to IICT asked the institute to focus …
The agriculture department has invited expressions of interest (EOIs) from recognized NGOs, cooperative societies, self help groups and farmers clubs to carry out a soil survey in the state. The project called 'the soil nutrient status of Goa: Major and micronutrients', has been taken up under the central government's Rashtriya …
Punjab is passing through a phase of ‘fiscal stress’ and is borrowing heavily to pay interest on loans, leaving little money for development. The Economic Survey 2012-13, prepared by the Economic Adviser to the government and released today, states that the current level of debt, which is expected to go …
Located south of Jinling Township in east China's Shandong Province, the Qilu Chemical Industry Park is home to a number of major chemical plants. Although the plants have brought significant tax revenues for government authorities, they have also sowed pollution worries among local residents. "There are irritating smells in the …
The report consists of six chapters and dives extensively into the conceptual foundations of economic evaluation providing an outline of what would ideally be needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts. The report deals extensively with not only the conceptual building up of the system of Green National Accounts …
With brick kilns sprawling all over the places in Chittagong, sometimes in utter disregard to the law, there is a growing concern over its negative impact not only on the environment but also on the agricultural output in the region. In a recent investigation, it has been revealed that out …
This Compendium of Environment Statistics 2012 published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the thirteenth edition of its series and covers five core parameters - biodiversity, atmosphere, land and soil, water and human settlements. This Compendium of Environment Statistics 2012 published by the Ministry of Statistics and …
The United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") recently finalized the first of several pending guidance documents and regulations governing the evaluation and mitigation of vapor intrusion at contaminated sites, a growing area of focus that has thus far been regulated primarily on the state level. EPA’s new guidance requires regional …
The Punjab Government is likely to roll out the State’s first agriculture policy by mid-December, aimed to make the farming profession economically viable by suggesting measures to raise farmers’ dwindling income and promote crop diversification. “The farm is expected to come out by mid-December,” official sources said. “The draft of …
Washington: Nasa’s Curiosity rover which completed its first soil analysis on Mars has found minerals on the Red Planet similar to weathered basalt volcanic soils in Hawaii. X-ray diffraction image of first Martian soil sample showed the presence of crystalline feldspar, pyroxenes and olivine mixed with some non-crystalline material — …
The central government has pledged to launch a national program to speed up efforts to control and improve the country's soil protection. The pledge was made during an executive meeting of the State Council on Wednesday chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao. At the meeting, the State Council decided to strictly …
Grasslands are structured by climate and soils and are increasingly affected by anthropogenic changes, including rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. CO2 enrichment can alter grassland ecosystem function both directly and through indirect, soil-specific effects on moisture, nitrogen availability and plant species composition, potentially leading to threshold change in ecosystem properties. Here …
With the help of geospatial technology, it is possible to generate and update information about natural resources, in spatial format, at much more frequent intervals, so enabling proper inventory and management of natural resources, said P. Subbian, Registrar, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU). Inaugurating a 21-day summer training on “Geospatial …
A study on the kinetics of adsorption of arsenate and arsenite ions by 3 widely occurring and agriculturally important Indian soils was conducted by changing the various factors that influence the process of adsorption.
The State-level committee on Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY) sanctioned nine new projects under the second green revolution programme on Wednesday. The Ministry of Agriculture has sanctioned Rs 217 crore to the State under the Centrally-sponsored Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI) to bridge the yield gap in the …
This Executive summary of Bijahan Coal Mine of Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd. shows the detail of project and their Environment Impact Assessment and Environment Management Plan.
Taking a significant step towards making agriculture profitable, the State Government has decided to make free soil health cards available to all farmers of Madhya Pradesh. For this purpose, an MoU was signed between Agriculture Department and IL&FS; Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited, Gurgaon in the presence of Farmers’ Welfare and …
The Department of Environment (DoE) fined two brick kilns in Narayanganj Bandar area Tk 15 lakh for harming the environment through using farmland topsoil to establish brick kilns. DoE Director (enforcement) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, on Tuesday, fined and realised Tk 10 lakh from Bandhan Brick Field and Tk 5 lakh …
There are ways to clean heavy-metal-polluted soil, according scientists that attended a two-day forum in Beijing that ended Thursday. A total of 300 soil scientists and ecology experts attended the 2012 Forum on Heavy Metal Soil Remediation and Ecological Restoration. Chen Tongbin, researcher with Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural …
