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 …
Scientists, agriculture experts and consumer groups welcome Union minister of environment Jairam Ramesh's decision to hold public meetings from January to look into the safety features of the controversial Bt brinjal which is the first genetically modified food crop to have been cleared for commercial release. Dr Pushpa Bhargava, India's …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai December 30, 2009, 0:39 IST Amid growing opposition to the human consumption of genetically-modified brinjal, also referred to as Bt brinjal, in various quarters, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh will travel across the country in January to hold consultations. During his month-long tour, Ramesh would …
At least 12 farmers from Dibrugarh and Sivasagar districts along with three agricultural officers including the SDO (Agricultural) of Charaideo sub-division have been selected for a farmer educational tour to Solan Agricultural University in Himachal Pradesh to learn about the new agricultural technology being used in northern states. The tour …
Ludhiana: Hoping to tide over the financial crisis, the fund-starved Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) that helped the country usher in the Green Revolution, now aims to bring about a biotechnological revolution while sensitising the farmers about environment conservation. Besides, it will also concentrate on evolving cost-effective technologies for natural resource …
If scientists of the Punjab Agricultural Department are to go by then the cause for the alarming deterioration rate of sheesham (Dalbergia sisso) and kikar (Acacia nilotica) trees and other agricultural crops across the state has been discovered. According to scientists, it is a kind of pest, which is responsible …
Until now the debate on agricultural biotechnology mainly focused on the environmental impact, biosafety issues and intellectual property rights. This paper looks at the nature of commercialised biotech products, the changing locus of agricultural research, the emerging market failures in biotech product development, and the likely impact on poverty and …
Semi-arid Gujarat has clocked high and steady growth at 9.6% per year in agricultural state domestic product since 1999-2000. What has driven this growth? The Gujarat government has aggressively pursued an innovative agriculture development programme by liberalising markets, inviting private capital, reinventing agricultural extension, improving roads and other infrastructure. Canal-irrigated …
India is the largest producer and consumer of pulses in the world. However, pulses production has been stagnant at between 11 and 14 million tonnes over the last two decades. Per capita pulses consumption over the years has come down from 61gm/day in 1951 to 30 gm/day in 2008. This …
Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University plans to focus on environmental problems affecting agricultural production, water management, bio-technology, food processing technology, crop value addition and seed production technology during the coming year. Vice Chancellor KS Khokhar says university scientists will strive to make agriculture more profitable and sustainable in the …
CUTTACK: Even as the recent Tendulkar Committee report labels Orissa as the poorest state with over 57 per cent of the population bracketed in the poor sections and deprived of adequate calorie intake, the focus should be on maximising nutrient absorption from the available food. While the Government has to …
Copenhagen in Denmark is a place of happening today where more than 195 countries have come together to discuss various steps to prevent and reduce global warming. Micro level While that might be happening at a macro level, thousands of miles away from India, Vanagam organic farm at Kadavalur village …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Small and marginal farmers would be the worst sufferers of climate change, Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Sharad Pawar said here on Wednesday.
Worried about the rising day and night temperatures in the winters, officials of the Punjab Agriculture Department will raise the issue at a meeting of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) on December 23. The meeting will be chaired by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and will be attended …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today underscored the urgency of making the fruits of science and technology available to the common man for ameliorating many of the ills afflicting the society such as poverty, unemployment, etc. In his inaugural address on the second day of the 9th Indian Science Communication Congress …
Around this time of the year, bright yellow flowers carpet the fields in scores of villages in Bihar's Vaishali district. They are not mustard crops waiting to burst into full bloom but cauliflower seeds that have ushered in a revolution of sorts
M.S. Swaminathan, the father of green revolution in India and a Rajya Sabha member, is in Copenhagen, along with four other members of Parliament, to keep track of India's negotiations on climate change. The 84year old agriculture scientist and recipient of several awards says that expectations had been raised in …
Policy action is required to ensure adequate public investment in agricultural research to benefit poor farmers and consumers in developing countries. Trade policies should not discriminate against developing countries that choose to commercialise genetically modified (GM) crops. These were the two main streams of thought distilled from the presentations made …
The widespread adoption of Bt cotton in India illustrates why and how evasion of both bio-property and bio-safety regimes is pervasive globally, said Prof Ronald J. Herring, Cornell University. A Professor of Government and Director of the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Prof Herring made this observation …
As agriculture universities transform local varieties into genetically modified Bt brinjal, questions of ownership arise Indians call it the brinjal. Other countries know it as the eggplant or aubergine. It is widely used the world over and every cuisine from the Chinese to the African has an encyclopaedia of recipes …
