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. …
If Gujarat has the distinction of achieving a record 9.6 per cent growth in agriculture, Haryana has the unique feature of being the only state in the country which has issued soil health cards to its farmers and has soil fertility maps for its entire agriculture land in the state. …
The Compendium of Environment Statistics 2010 prepared under the broad Framework for Development of Environment Statistics provided by the United Nations Statistics Division and adopted by the Steering Committee on Environment Statistics set up by CSO during 1996. The five parameters of the framework, namely, biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water, and …
Traditional replenishing practices should be encouraged to raise crop yields Soil fatigue has emerged as one of the key constraints in raising crop yields. Most of the arable land in India has been cropped for decades and some even for centuries. In the process, nutrient consumption has far exceeded the …
LUCKNOW: Farmers from all over the country on Saturday expressed their concern over soil degradation here at an interactive session held for them at the 10th Agricultural Science Congress. Farmers represented by 60 representatives selected from different states felt that soil degradation was emerging as a major constraint in increasing …
Feb. 10: Central Bureau of Investigation officials ins-pected all controversial mining sites in Obulapuram and H. Siddapuram villages as part of their investigation for the second day in D. Hi-rehal mandal on Thursday. Officials including Indian Bureau of Mines senior geologists visited Anantapur Mining Company, Obulapuram Mining Company 1 & …
Soil degradation in all its nefarious forms has serious repercussions on crop and biomass productivity. Assessment of soil loss tolerance limits (SLTLs) (permissible soil loss) serves as a tool to gauge the potential erosion risk in given area with regard to long term sustainability.
Quantifying the cost associated with forest activities in an effective way of managing and maintaining forests. This can be achieved by the economic valuation of our forest resources in terms of cost-benefit analysis (CBA). However, such studies on economic valuation of forest soils in India are sparse. The present work …
This new report by Greenpeace assesses the impact of government policies on soil health across five states of India and warns that indiscriminate chemical fertilizer usage, catalyzed by a lenient subsidy policy is posing a threat to country's soil health. This is the report of the first-ever social audit of …
Soil organic carbon was estimated in four land uses viz. forests, plantations, agroforestry and horticulture in Haridwar district. Over all 425 soil samples were collected from different land uses at various locations. Soil organic carbon, bulk density and coarse fragments were estimated in collected samples and SOC pool was calculated …
Gujarat is a role model for the rest of the country with respect to certification of agricultural land, with more than 70% of the state's farmers provided cards with information on the quality of their soil, a senior agriculture ministry officer said on Monday.
In their report (Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: Global distribution and covariation with climate," 13 August, p. 834), C. Beer et al. joined others in estimating global carbon fluxes and their relationship to climate. (Letters)
New Delhi: Farmers would soon get to know soil moisture content of their agricultural land which would help them in timely watering their crop through use of mobile phone. Due to a innovative technical device developed by Kondamudi Swarna Rekha, an engineer from Andhra Pradesh, the multi functional wireless remote …
It has long been felt that our natural environment should be mapped and monitored with active participation of agencies responsible for managing natural resources, industry groups and community organizations. This organized information forms a basis for storing soil and land databases for the implementation and monitoring of various efforts on …
KOTTAYAM: The Rubber Board has decided to grant financial assistance to set up demonstration plots for soil protection and water harvesting in small holdings. According to a release, the scheme intends to set up such demonstration plots in a total area of 1,000 hectares, spread over traditional and non-traditional rubber …
In agriculture, water plays an important role in crop production. So it is very important to use water very efficiently in crop production and see more grains from every drop of water used in crop cultivation.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Aiming to develop a long-term strategy for scientific management of soil resources in the State, a project to evolve soil-based plant nutrient management plan for agro-ecosystems was launched here on Wednesday. The ambitious multi-institutional project aims to analyse around 2.3 lakh soil samples, collected from 999 panchayats and to …
One of the popular methods to estimate the depth of surface runoff for a given rainfall is the Soil Conservation Service Number (SCS-CN) method. In this method, variation of antecedent moisture condition (AMC) is not continuous.
