Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …
Fig trees are pollinated by fig-wasps who in turn lay eggs in the flower so that wasp babies can grow there. This, however, does not tea to extinction of fig trees as man of the fig flowers that get poll nated escape oviposition. The reason: two kinds of styles, sho …
THE agricultural policy of the state of Tamil Nadu has undergone a transfor- mation which will apparently ensure all round economic development and faster economic growth especially in the rural areas. The new policy was adopted by means of a resolution passed in the state assembly. Integrating farming systems animal …
Researchers have finally brought the controversy around 'gay gene' theory to an end. A study conducted on gay siblings revealed the existence of genetic material on an X-chromosome segment which may be responsible for homosexual preference in males, though not so in females. Dean Hamer and his colleagues at the …
"LARGE parts of Uttarakhand now lie denuded ... the whole region is turning into a desert. If this trend continues for another 50 years, it will become impossible to save the Himalaya from total collapse," environmental activist Chandi Prasad Batt had said at a public rally in 1980. One could …
ONE-THIRD of all Africans are undernourished. It is shocking to learn how rapidly and dangerously food security continues to deteriorate, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Soil fertility is on the slide, yields per hectare of principal food crops are declining and population growth has exceeded growth in food production in most …
MAJOR rice and water crises await Asian countries in the next 30 years, the International Rice Research Institute (iARi) reports. It predicts acute shortages of rice unless anti-pollution and conservation attempts are exercised in the area. iARi forewes social problems being triggered off by competition for declining water supplies and …
LIGHT emitting diodes (LEDS) are C0113monly used as displays for many con- Sumer electronics products. In the last few years, tremendous progress has been made in the technology for improving the quality of these display units. LEDs with much higher light intensity and a longer life have been developed now, …
WHEAT is the Crop of the coming era, says the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). And India is slated to be the lead producer of this cereal in the next decade. In a recently published report, the Institute predicts that wheat will be the most important grain in …
Although alcohol consumption has lately been linked to reduced heart problems, researchers at the London-based Royal Colleges of Physicians, Psychiatrists and General Practitioners, have reaffirmed previous "safe limits" of alcohol intake. Reportedly, high alcohol consumption leads to high death rates from blood vessel rupture, even as it lowers mortalitN from …
LET us accept the general consensus of scientists that global warming is happening, that it is caused largely by carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels, and that it cannot be reversed without a reduction in the use of fossil fuels. Following on from Rio and more recently Berlin, most …
HERE is an offer that makes you stop and think. Zurich's local electricity office, Elektrizitatswerk der Stadt Zurich (Fwz), recently sent around a circular offering 3,500 of its customers the opportunity to buy power at us $1.30 per kilowatt-hour instead of the normal us $0.13. Why would anyone want to …
THE unprecedented increase in population, and the even greater increase in the scale of human activity, largely in this century, have been brought about by the growing mastery of science and its applications. This has led to prosperity, improved standards of life, and opportunities have expanded beyond anything that the …
THE Mexican government is outraged by us authorities' attempts to dump nuclear and toxic wastes in the predominantly Hispanic Texan town of Sierra Blanca. It has accused the us government of violating the 1883 La Paz agree- ment under which they had agreed tavoid activities damaging to the envi-onment or …
IMAGINE a vast expanse of agricultural field interspersed with luminous patches. In the not too distant future, this vision will no longer be left to the imagination, but could become a reality. Scientists at UK's Oxford University and the University of Wales have succeeded in developing a unique early warning …
SCHEDULED to be held three years ago but repeatedly postponed due to the raging controversy surrounding it, the conference to debate on the possible relation between Genetics and Criminal Behaviour finally took place in the last week of September at Maryland, Washington DC. David Wasserman of University of Maryland's Institute …
While livelihoodstock can safely be regarded as An economic asset, an excessive number Of its spell trouble for foodgrain pro- diction An increasing trend to use the oil land for fodder production for pestack is cited to be the reason. Wing to Lester Brown and H Kane C Waslungton based …
GREEN has once again proved its superiority, though in an unusual field this time - pulses. Experiments conducted in recent years to find a suitable alternative to the less remunerative horse gram have indicated that green gram is more farmer-friendly than horse gram (Farmer and Parliament, Vol 30, No 9). …
Farmers in Vietnam and the Philippines are literally being taught a lesson. Eager to incr crop yields, they were liberal ia using pesticides to contain leaf dar4 age, which has never affected crop yield in the first place. Some 9q farmers were recently interviewee by researchers at the Internationq Rice …
Exploiting sea water for agriculture is a recent phenomenon that has gained importance in the face of rising population and dwindling water resources. Researchers screening saltwater plants from deserts and saline and alkaline soils scattered around the globe have stumbled on to a plant which is proving beneficial to humans. …
PREDICTIONS of the Union ministry of agriculture foresee India as the third biggest rice exporter in the world in the next financial year after the us and Thailand. It is estimated that rice exports will cross the two million tormes mark by March next year. Said Balrarn Jakhar, minister for …
