Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) for Karnataka has unanimously passed a resolution giving effect to the rescheduling of term loans amounting to Rs 1,357 crore, including the principal and interest to debt-stressed grape and pomegranate growers. The banks have also agreed to extend fresh line of credit irrespective of …
The disease in maize crop in Ghamake village in Pawannagar VDC of western Dang has destroyed maize crop worth over Rs. 20 million. It has destroyed maize in some 300 bighas of land, said local farmers. All maize of the field was destroyed in a few days from disease seen …
A killer tree disease appears to have been eradicated in the Forest of Dean after work to fell some 100,000 trees. The Forestry Commission is working to stop the spread of the Phytophthora ramorum fungus which is destroying trees across Britain. Some 120 hectares (296 acres) of larch and sweet …
A research conducted by Renewable Natural Resources Research and Development Sub-Centre (RNRRDSC) in Tsirang has found that Baj and Agreem – two new wheat variety – to be more resistent to rust infection than Sonalika, the variety the farmers have been growing. Rust has been a recurrent threat to wheat …
The focus of the great majority of climate change impact studies is on changes in mean climate. In terms of climate model output, these changes are more robust than changes in climate variability. By concentrating on changes in climate means, the full impacts of climate change on biological and human …
Washington: Scientists, including an Indian-origin researcher, have identified a set of genes that could be key to the development of the next generation of tough and disease-resistant 'super rice'. "As the Earth's human population marches towards 9 billion, the need for hardy new varieties of grain crops has never been …
The fifty-sixth report on 'The Agricultural Biosecurity Bill 2013' presented by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture in Lok Sabha on 5th Febraury 2014 Committee on Agriculture present this Fifty-Sixth Report on `The Agricultural Biosecurity Bill 2013‘. The Agricultural Biosecurity Bill, 2013 was introduced in Lok Sabha on 11 March, …
Scientific and business communities increasingly recognize that climate change is causing weather extremes and precipitating natural disasters, such as the European heat wave of 2003, the drought in East Africa in 2011, and in 2012 the worst drought in the US since 1956. In one report, which examined a number …
The Bt cotton crop standing on 13,000 hectares of land at several villages of Perambalur district has been affected by three distinct diseases, causing anxiety among farmers. A team of scientists from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tiruchi, along with officials of the …
RANGPUR, Nov 18: Gourd growers at different upazilas in Kurigram district are worried as the cultivation of vegetables is severely been affected on account of root rotting disease. The disease is causing massive damage to many gourd fields at different villages under Kurigram Sadar and Rajarhat Upazila before the eyes …
A portion of the standing paddy crop in Bhaktapur has been destroyed by “neck blast” and “bacterial leaf blight” diseases. According to a preliminary finding, paddy on 361 hectares out of the 4,252 hectares of rice fields in the district has been lost. The infection has been detected in 16 …
Fusarium wilt of banana is one of the most destructive diseases in the world. This disease has caused heavy losses in major banana production areas. Except for molecular breeding methods based on plant defense mechanisms, effective methods to control the disease are still lacking. Dynamic changes in defense mechanisms between …
Srinagar, August 28: In what has signalled a red alert for Kashmir’s apple growers this year, scientists at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Kashmir (SKAUST-K), have corroborated that 40 per cent of the apple orchards in Kashmir are severely infected with alternaria leaf blotch disease. The intensity of the …
The papaya mealy bug, a native of Central America, is threatening to wreak havoc in papaya cultivation in many areas of Bangladesh and causing huge economic losses to farmers. The granule-sized pest, believed to have arrived in 2008 via imports feed on the sap, which eventually leads to the plant’s …
The Haryana Government bought tebucanazol from a multi-national company at 34-38 per cent more cost than the prevailing market rates at the time the deal was inked to buy the fungicide for the treatment of loose smut, flag smut and Karnal bunt diseases in wheat seeds. Documents available with The …
A mysterious vegetable disease has hit the bumper tomato crop at Lagor village under the Ganhi-Lagor panchayat in the Nurpur block known for producing hybrid tomato for years. Almost every tomato field at the village had been hit. This has caused disappointment among tomato growers. Twelve growers said many farmers …
A Bill to provide for establishment of an Authority for prevention, control, eradication and management of pests and diseases of plants and animals and unwanted organisms for ensuring agricultural biosecurity and to meet international obligations of India for facilitating imports and exports of plants, plant products, animals, animal products, aquatic …
The first three cases of ash dieback in 2013 have been found in Wales, the Forestry Commission has confirmed. The fungus, which causes trees to gradually wither and die, has been found at three newly-planted sites in private woodland in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. All the young trees on the three …
Global environmental changes (GEC) such as climate change (CC) and climate variability have serious impacts in the tropics, particularly in Africa. These are compounded by changes in land use/land cover, which in turn are driven mainly by economic and population growth, and urbanization. These factors create a feedback loop, which …
Policy measures regarding adaptation to climate change include efforts to adjust socio-economic and ecologic systems. Colombia has undertaken various measures in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation since becoming a party of the Kyoto protocol in 2001 and a party of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change …
