Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Something is stirring in paddy fields across India. New seeds, new crop management techniques and newly minted food security policies are about to hit the countryside. Not all of the changes that are being forged in Krishi Bhawan, headquarters of the Union agriculture ministry, in the top-flight research institutions across …
IT’S yellow, sweet, large, uniformly sized and firmly textured. For almost everyone the Cavendish variety is the banana. But it was not so until the 1950s when a fungus knocked out its predecessor, Gros Michel, the sweetest variety known so far. The Cavendish, once a littleknown Vietnamese variety, successfully resisted …
Preeti Parashar Farmers in Haryana are learning new techniques to improve crop productivity at the Centre of Excellence for vegetables. The centre is being set up in collaboration with the Israel government at the cost of Rs 6 crore at Ghrounda in Karnal. It will spread over 15 acres and …
A.V.Ragunathan International Rice Research Institute, Manila, assigns task CUDDALORE: The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, the Philippines, has assigned the task of evaluating submergence-tolerant paddy varieties in Tamil Nadu to the Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University. Rm.Kathiresan, head and professor, Department of Agronomy, told The Hindu …
Jalpaiguri, Dec. 23: Sumanta Mishra has been working wonders in his small garden and rooftop where he has been growing chilli plants that soar up to 25 feet and a cotton shrub that has attained a height of 30 feet, all by using organic fertilisers. Today, scientists from the Indian …
World nuclear agricultural scientists said that nuclear induced mutations in a number of crop species in several countries have contributed significantly to food security and agricultural economy.
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Centre has allocated Rs. 350 crore for implementation of a new planned scheme - National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture - to address the impact of climate change on agriculture and allied sectors. About one lakh farmers from 100 districts in various States will benefit …
M.J. PRABU Priced at Rs. 500 a piece, two traps are sufficient for an acre Simple technology: David Raja Beula, Assistant Director of Horticulture demonstrating the use of wireless trap to farmers.
A project seeks to build commercial benefits from innovations, both within the agri-research system and outside Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 14, 2010, 0:16 IST The launch of the World Bank-assisted National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) four years ago marked a new chapter in agricultural research. Researchers began viewing …
MoU facilitates use of scientific equipment by both institutions TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Centre for Catalysis Research (NCCR), a Department of Science and Technology funded centre at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for developing research and other related activities in crop …
With rise in temperature due to climate change, agricultural scientists have called for speedy development of various stress resistance varieties of rice for sustaining production in future.
The Maharashtra government on Sunday gifted five acres of land to veteran paddy innovator-farmer Dadaji Khobragade at his native village in Chandrapur district. Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar met the septuagenarian, twice recipient of the National Innovation Foundation
Serena Josephine. M TNAU experts visit parts of Tirupattur, Kandhili and Madhanur Red gram cultivated at Kallukuttai in Tirupattur under the Accelerated Pulses Production Programme. TIRUPATTUR: With red gram
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has requested Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to revoke the permission given for field trials of genetically-modified (GM) rubber in Kottayam. 'Express' had reported that the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), at a meeting held on November 15, had given …
Scientists have both the right and a moral duty to be "stewards of God" by genetically modifying crops to help the world's poor, scientific advisers to the Vatican said.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) at Sreekaryam, here, has developed a bio-pesticide for field pests from Cassava (Tapioca) and is in the process of developing a bio-fumigant for storage pests. A bio-pesticide production plant which will go a long way in the development of such products will …
Awareness rally on Rajarajan 1,000 technique flagged off Overview:Collector T.N. Hariharan (left), inspecting the paddy transplantation being RAMANATHAPURAM: As many as 6,000 hectares will be brought under the
