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 …
To provide students with an opportunity to produce disease-free species of seeds and yield healthy crops, the Plant Tissue Culture Lab was inaugurated at the Bagh-e-Jinnah by Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) Vice Chancellor Dr Bushra Mateen and Punjab Floriculture Director Dr Muhammad Tariq Iqtidar on Wednesday. The LCWU …
Observations of Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal and Chancellor at the Annual Convocation of The Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Mohanpur, 9 April 2009.
Scientists must help the farmers to increase per acre yield of crops, which would consequently bolster the countrys economy. "Agricultural scientists have made a lot of contribution towards increasing per acre yield and improving our economy due to crop yield boost," stated Professor Dr Tayyab Hasnain here on Friday. He …
Researchers at Binerpota Agriculture Research Centre here have evolved two new varieties of salinity-tolerant soybean seed ushering in a high hope of providing nutrition to the poor people at lower cost. Researchers of the Centre under Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute, after relentless efforts since 2002, finally evolved BARI Soybean-5 and …
Telecommunications Minister Razi Uddin Ahmed Razu yesterday stressed the need for encouraging farmers to use modern agricultural technologies to give the country's agro-based economy a firm footing. "Suitable modern agricultural technologies should be made available so the farmers can avail of the benefits of those," he said while inaugurating Agriculture …
At Yamuna Biodiversity Park, Scientists Study Possibilities Of Hybridization & Mutation Manash Pratim Gohain | TNN New Delhi: Traditionally associated with a rise in rat population, destruction of standing crops and advent of famine, there is no fun in flowering of the bamboo. However, at the city
A field experiment was conducted on lateritic soil of Western Ghat region in Goa State to study the effect of bioengineering measures viz. Half Moon Terraces + Vetiveria zizanioides + Stylosanthes scabra, continuous contour trench + Vetiveria zizanioides + Stylosanthes scabra, graded trench + Vetiveria zizanioides + Stylosanthes scabra, staggered …
Field experiment for evaluation of border-check method of irrigation was conducted with wheat crop on sandy loam soils at Water Technology Centre, New Delhi. Four basins of different aspect ratios (width/length) were evaluated. An inflow cutoff criterion for each basin was selected based on cutoff at the completion of advance …
The concept of food security has evolved during the last three decades to include not only food availability, but also economic access to food and the biological absorption of food in the body. The author discusses in this paper the challenge of achieving sustainable advances in farm productivity, leading to …
Agriculture growth and instability have remained the subject of intense debate in the agricultural economics literature in India. While the need for increasing agricultural production or growth are obvious, the increase in instability in agricultural production is considered adverse for several reasons. It raises the risk involved in farm production …
Location of a gene active against rust diseases pinpointed COME winter and wheat plants might exhibit symptoms every farmer dreads. The leaves and stems show small orange to brown flecks that soon enlarge and spread. The infected parts mature and go from brown to black. Gradually the plant withers and …
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) last year invented four new varieties of rice -- BRRI Dhan-48, BRRI Dhan-49, BRRI Dhan-50 (Bangla Moti) and BRRI Hybrid Dhan-2. With these the number of rice varieties invented by the organisation stood at 51, scientists at the BRRI informed. Scientists said BRRI-48 is medium …
Four farmer communities from different parts of the country were recently felicitated by the Government for their efforts at preserving different original varieties of rice genomes. The communities are Vrihi Beej Binimoy Kendra (Bankura, West Bengal), Kuruchiya and Kuruma tribal communities (Wayanad, Kerala), tribal communities from Jharkhand, and P Narayanan …
Supporters of small-scale farming claim that it provides livelihoods, and it can also conserve agrodiversity. In an attempt to show this, an international network of scientists joined hands with farmer communities to document agrodiversity. By sharing this knowledge with other farming communities, they showed how it is possible to achieve …
Farmers in the Yoro and Otoro regions of Honduras have organised themselves into agricultural research teams to improve the diversity and resilience of their farms. Supported by local and international organisations, these farmers have diversified their plant genetic resources and developed hardier varieties that grow well on their soils. Their …
Every day, millions of rural people who depend on agriculture confront technical, economic, social, cultural, and traditional obstacles to improving their livelihoods. To cope with these obstacles, the rural poor draw on indigenous knowledge and innovate through local experimentation and adaptation. Indigenous knowledge alone, however, is not enough to deal …
Agriculture continues to be a fundamental instrument for sustainable development and poverty reduction in India. India resides in its villages and according to the 2001 census 72.2 per cent of the people are in rural areas. The agriculture sector contributes only about 18 per cent of the total Gross Domestic …
Agents to control this dreaded weed work well in labs, need to be taken to fields congress grass or parthenium, a native of tropical America, came to India accidentally in 1955. A rapidly growing invasive species, this grass competes well for nutrients and space and reproduces fast. One of the …
RUDRA BISWAS New initiative Ranchi, Feb. 25: If rains or pests pose a problem for farmers, experts of Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) would immediately email them a list of precautions that need to be taken. Those with specific queries would get answers emailed to their mailboxes. And since farmers here …
