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 …
Vitamin deficiency affects up to 50% of the world's population, disproportionately impacting on developing countries where populations endure monotonous, cereal-rich diets. Transgenic plants offer an effective way to increase the vitamin content of staple crops, but thus far it has only been possible to enhance individual vitamins. We created elite …
In India, of the 49 million hectares (mha) of acid soil, 25 mha has pH below 5.5. Considerable genetic variability for aluminium (Al) tolerance exists in pea seedlings at intraspecific level, which has allowed the selection of tolerant and productive genotypes for acidic soil.
Production of organic rice is a necessity of the present era. Hence, development of high-yielding rice varieties, suitable for a salinity stress area which is naturally an organic production system like the
Cultivation of summer Mug dal has been gaining popularity in various districts of the region for the last couple of years with the farmers reaping higher economic benefit from the increased demand for this variety of pulse. Apart from cultivation of winter Mug dal, the acreage for summer Mug dal …
Chinese experts visiting the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) on Wednesday said deserts could be converted into productive farmlands and the same could be done in Pakistan also. The Chinese experts and the PARC scientists discussed the areas of cooperation for development of agriculture sector in Pakistan. The mission headed …
Sardar Asif Ahmed Ali, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission (PC) has said that Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (Parc) is playing a vital role in innovative agricultural research and lauded the efforts of agricultural scientists. He showed keen interest in alternative agricultural experimentation while witnessing the organic wheat fields, fruit orchards, Kalonji …
Cultivation of BR-47, a saline-tolerant rice variety, in the southern coastal region could bring about significant changes in rice production, Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque said yesterday. "There are around 2.8 million hectares of agricultural land in the coastal districts. If high yielding varieties like BR-47 are …
"Innovative and modern solutions in the agriculture sector hold the key to development and prosperity of the country and well placed emphasis on agriculture can kick-start the development process because of its direct and indirect association with all sectors of the economy." This was stated here on Tuesday by Punjab …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan said here on Saturday that the State government or Kerala Agriculture University should take steps to establish a research and training centre on below sea-level farming at Kuttanad. Speaking on
Srinagar: Vice-Chancellor, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Kashmir, Anwar Alam has urged the scientific community to put in strenuous efforts to address emerging challenges in agriculture and allied sectors. He identified important issues in various sectors of agriculture, particularly forestry, fisheries and livestock husbandry that need focused …
Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) has given approval of 18 agricultural projects worth Rs 359.8 million to carry out research in wheat, rice, vegetables and cotton crops. The approval was accorded at the 18th meeting of the PARB board of directors held here on Tuesday with the Punjab Agriculture Minister, …
Suman Sahai CHINA IS always held up as an example by people in government in the matter of genetically modified (GM) crop adoption. Those who question the implementation of genetically engineered crops in India are told to look at how China is racing ahead in transgenic technology, how it is …
Dr Muhammad Rashid, Director General Agriculture (Research) has urged the agriculture scientists to develop high quality varieties of citrus fruits with highest yield potential so that precious foreign exchange could be earned by increasing export to foreign countries. He stated this while addressing an awareness seminar on citrus at Ayub …
Jalandhar: Doaba farmers today demonstrated at Jaffarpur village, near Shahkot, 40 km from here, to protest against a potato seed company-Technico limited. Farmers accused the company of providing defective seed to them. Sukhjit Singh Bhatti, president of the Confederation of Potato Seed Farmers, said he had suffered loss of Rs …
Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) has given approval of 18 agricultural projects worth Rs 359.8 million to carry out research in wheat, rice, vegetables and cotton crops. The approval was accorded at the 18th meeting of the PARB board of directors held here on Tuesday with the Punjab Agriculture Minister, …
Agricultural scientists should explore new possibilities in agriculture research and should learn problem handling in different ways. This was stated by Dr Zafar Altaf, Chairman Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Islamabad while addressing agricultural scientists at Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad. He said that dignity of agricultural scientists must be …
His family left Manila when Buencamino "Boy" Talabucon was only three years old to settle in Davao del Sur. They were poor and so after graduating from high school, he started working by driving a passenger's vehicle. After more than a decade of driving daily for twelve hours along bumpy …
Lucknow: Sitaram Yadav, a farmer based in Gohta village of Mau district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, gives a thumbs up to the flood-tolerant Swarna Sub-1 rice variety.
