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 …
LUCKNOW: Entrepreneurship education is meant to provide knowledge and develop expertise to start and manage own independent enterprise. Students opting for PG Diploma in Management Business Entrepreneurship (PGDM-BE) course are guided to work on detailed project report and emerge with bankable business plan after completion of classroom training. These views …
Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal informed the Senate on Wednesday that the National Agriculture Research System has developed 34 high yield and disease resistant varieties of various crops. Replying to questions in the House, he said tea production technology has been standardised and demonstrated at farmers' field …
Genetic modification may be the only viable way to produce sufficient quantities of rice in the future as drought, climate change and dwindling acreage impact yields, experts said in a new report. The main challenge facing producers is how to raise yields of the water-dependent crop as 70% of the …
Melbourne: In what might be an answer to the increasing global population and ensuing food crisis, Australian scientists have claimed discovering a way to boost crop yields that can help improve productivity. Newcastle University researchers said they have found that by knocking out a gene from the genetic code of …
It will help to overcome water shortage and protect soil fertility Latest machines: Ko.Si. Mani, Minister for Co-operation, at the exhibition of agricultural equipment at Anaikarai near Kumbakonam on Sunday. THANJAVUR: To overcome water shortage and protect soil fertility, farmers should take to modern techniques in cultivation, said Ko.Si. Mani, …
After the fibre crop Bt. Cotton, genetically-engineered food crops look set for more action, with Bt. Brinjal (eggplant) and golden rice expected to be released in the country in less than three years. According to Dr Sajiv Anand, Director of All India Crop Biotechnology Association (AICBA), genetically-engineered brinjal (Bt. Brinjal) …
The ninth species of the tomato leaf curl virus in India is found supriya chakraborty was used to tomato farmers in Varanasi complaining about their dwarfed plants that would produce no fruits. The agriculture scientist saw many farmers shift to other crops. First the leaves would turn yellow, curl up …
Preeti Parashar : Farmers in Haryana can look forward to improving productivity of their fields by using latest technology as well as venture into high value crops by 2010. The state
Rashme Sehgal July 9: Senior scientists have expressed concern that research in India's cash-strapped 51 agricultural universities is increasingly being funded by agri-business giants. Speaking at a press conference, experts with the Deccan Development Society (DDS) regretted that the critical thrust of agricultural research had moved to areas of genetic …
Punjab Agricultural Research Board (Parb) has approved four new agriculture research projects including development of sugarcane, improvement of chickpea productivity, development of Basmati Rice varieties suitable for parboiling and optimisation and standardisation of operational parameters of hot water treatment system for mangoes. According to details the board approved Rs 19.2 …
Haryana Agricultural University scientists have expressed the possibility of insect and pest attacks on cotton crop in the prevailing weather conditions. Dr Hari Ram Rohilla, Head, Entomology Department of the university, said if relative humidity touched 70 per cent or above and the average temperature ranged between 25 and 30
Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that Pakistan and China are working on development of a new rice seed variety having more per acre yield and resistance against diseases. 'Production achieved from this new rice seed would be exported to Iran and in return Pakistan would get oil …
Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that Pakistan and China are working on development of a new rice seed variety having more per acre yield and resistance against diseases. 'Production achieved from this new rice seed would be exported to Iran and in return Pakistan would get oil …
The Himachal apples will not taste as they used to do in the best days of their harvests. And the fruit is also not expected to be available in abundance this time around. This is perhaps the first visible adverse affect of the climate
Dr Muhammad Rashid, Director General Agricultural (Research) asked agricultural scientists to develop new technology to increase water-use efficiency. He stated this while addressing a seminar on Research Activities and the Achievements of the Agronomic Research Institute, Faisalabad. He said that water was the most precious resource, so it should be …
An attempt was made to investigate the influence of different doses of nitrogen on growth and yield of pearlmillet under irrigated and non-irrigated in semi-arid region of Delhi with an aim to determine the optimum levels of N under two different moisture situations (irrigated and non-irrigated).
Field experiments on rice-wheat cropping were conducted in well-drained sandy loam soil of semi-arid region, Project Directorate for Cropping Systems Research, Modipuram, Meerut (UP) with the objectives to study the influence of tillage systems and irrigation schedules on soil cracking pattern, water requirement and performance of rice and wheat and …
