Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Inaugural speech of Shri Sharad Pawar, Union Minister Of Agriculture And Consumers Affairs, Food and Public Distribution on the occasion of the 4th WCCA, 4th February, 2009, New Delhi. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) will jointly organize the Congress.The deliberations …
This publication demonstrates that natural resources can contribute to growth, employment, exports and fiscal revenues in low-income countries, where natural capital constitutes a quarter of total wealth. It highlights the importance of policies encouraging the sustainable management of these resources. Moreover, it emphasises the need to address the political challenges …
OUR CORRESPONDENT Malda, Jan. 1: The state irrigation department in Malda is awaiting permission from the Ganga Flood Control Commission to begin a Rs 33 crore anti-erosion work along the river in the border areas.
The Brihattar Pub Barpeta Brahmaputra Garakhahaniya Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has threatened to block the Barpeta-Chenga- Daulashal road for 1,000 hours from January 5 and lock all government institutions in the East Barpeta area to protest the apathy of the government towards the grave problem of erosion in their area by …
The crop productivity in Siwalik rainfed areas including kandi belt of Jammu and Kashmir is very low. To improve the agricultural productivity of these areas, a holistic approach through watershed management project was introduced in early 1990 to manipulate land and water resources more efficiently for better crop production. The …
New method takes into account turbulence in flow of water ABOUT a hundred thousand farmers in Malda and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal lose land and homes to erosion caused by the Ganga every year. With little knowhow on when the river will wash away their farmland, they are compelled …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has submitted a revised project of Rs 441 crore to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to tackle soil erosion along the coast and strengthen cyclone mitigation measures. The project will be implemented for three years from 2009-10 in Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Ganjam and …
Sikkim is facing great challenge to protect the natural resource from land degradation and erosion. The whole state of Sikkim is hilly and cris-crossed by number of streams. Soil erosion is one of the major problems. The hills of Sikkim mainly consist of gneissose and half-schistose rocks, making their soil …
Cereals are by far the most important source of food throughout the world, either directly for human consumption or indirectly in the form of animal feed for livestock products consumed as food. With world population set to rise to nine billion by 2050, there is an urgent need to examine …
The Ministry of Water Resources has confirmed that it has submitted a proposal for North Eastern Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Management Project, Assam to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for financial support. The ADB has cleared the Project Preparatory Technical Assistance and the consultant has submitted draft feasibility report, …
Referring to yesterday's Daily News report headlined 'Is it the end of World's End? a spokeswoman for the Environment Ministry said, development projects were carried out at Horton Plains covering the World's End area in an environment friendly manner to stop soil erosion during rainy days. The spokeswoman said the …
A considerable amount of research has focused on how and when the Tibetan plateau formed in the wake of tectonic convergence between India and Asia1. Although far less enquiry has addressed the controls on river incision into the plateau itself, widely accepted theory predicts that steep fluvial knick points (river …
Shillong: Meghalaya loses approximately 10 million metric tones of top soil annually through practice of shifting cultivation, deforestation and other methods of soil degradation activities, said the Director of Soil and Water Conservation, KC Momin at the annual general meeting of Meghalaya Soil and Water Conservation held at the Conservation …
