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 …
German agricultural authorities on Sunday identified locally grown bean sprouts as the likely cause of the deadly E coli outbreak that has killed 22 people and sickened over 2,200 others in Europe. The Lower Saxony agriculture ministry sent an alert on Sunday warning people to stop eating the sprouts, Ministry …
Over 300,000 coconut trees in the Matara District are identified as been affected by blight, Matara District Secretary W K K Athukorala told the Daily News yesterday. She said that directives had been given to cut down and destroy these trees within two weeks after they are earmarked to prevent …
About 1,000 farmers from across the State will be trained as 'plant doctors' at a three-day training beginning Thursday, in Chitradurga. The programme, funded by the Agriculture Department and the Bio-control Research Laboratories (BCRL) and supported by the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), aims to create a pool of …
Late blight, a fungal disease, has attacked the potato crop in Punjab, which is a major producer of tuber crop in the country, raising fear of damage to the crop. According to a survey conducted by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), late blight, causes huge loss to crop yield, which appears …
P K Balachandran | ENS THOUGH it was announced at the end of last year, that Sri Lanka would import millions of coconuts from Kerala to make up for a shortage of this essential cooking ingredient, it is now learnt that there may be no imports from Kerala because of …
The spread of yellow leaf disease in the areca farms of the taluk has forced the farmers to desert the village and move to other places in search of livelihood. An areca farm affected by yellow leaf disease at Hulugaradi of Koppa taluk. (Right) The remains of Subba Bhat
IT’S yellow, sweet, large, uniformly sized and firmly textured. For almost everyone the Cavendish variety is the banana. But it was not so until the 1950s when a fungus knocked out its predecessor, Gros Michel, the sweetest variety known so far. The Cavendish, once a littleknown Vietnamese variety, successfully resisted …
Baobabs (Adansonia spp.) are iconic trees, known for their immense size, strange forms, sources of food and as the subjects of myths and mysteries. It is thus surprising that little is known regarding the fungi that infect these trees. During a survey to determine which wound infecting fungi occur on …
Florida's orange groves are still shrinking as the state battles the tree-killing citrus greening disease and farmers sell their land, the annual Department of Agriculture census showed on Thursday. The number of commercial orange trees and total acreage devoted to orange groves have steadily shrunk over the last five years …
The problem may be specific to this year alone because of extraordinary circumstances, but it is new phenomenon that has alarmed official circles. It may also cause reduction of 10 to 15 per cent production in the affected acres.
China has tremendous climatic and ecological diversity, so the impacts of climate change on natural and managed systems might likewise be expected to be diverse. Yet so far systematic studies have been rare. Here, the impacts of historical and future climate change on water resources and agriculture in China are …
Lantana is a rapidly growing obnoxious weed though it has potential of purposeful utilization. Preservation of bamboo during storage with the help of preservative of natural origin i.e. Lantana extract may result in saving of material.
GREENING of citrus or huanglongbing disease affects oranges, kinnows, lemons and other members of the citrus family. The bacterial infection, characterised by yellow leaves and unripe green fruits, is difficult to detect. A recent study offers insight into how the disease might be detected early in sweet oranges. The disease …
It was May 2009. S Abdul Rahman at Cumbam village in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district was worried about his coconut plantations. The palm trees were drying at the roots, leaflets were bending and the older leaves were completely dry. These were dreaded symptoms he knew well. Neighbouring farms were also …
PESHAWAR (June 09 2010): Fruit orchards in district Peshawar have been hit by a mysterious disease leaving the plants dry, inflicting heavy financial losses on the farmers of the area. Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, Haji Khan Sahib, Abdullah Jan, Haji Jehandad and Afsar Ali, orchard farmers from Urmar …
If you think that climate change is merely a drastic change in weather, think again. Scientists at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) found that higher temperatures are making chickpea susceptible to new diseases. Recent studies by Icrisat in India indicated that drought caused by prolonged …
Higher temperatures are making chickpea susceptible to new diseases: ICRISAT Dry root rot is one of the two diseases that affect chickpea production SANGAREDDY: Scientists at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) di"scover that higher temperatures are making chickpea susceptible to new diseases. Recent studies by …
Sandip Das New Delhi: India's bumper wheat production in the last few years has largely been attributed to favourable weather and significant rise in minimum support price, but a big factor also has been the virtual absence of any threatening crop disease, particularly the dreaded Ug99, commonly known as yellow …
The chillies grown in Heroor near Uppoor in Udupi is affected with disease, thus putting the farmers into hardship. Farmers usually grow three crops in a year in the region. After the monsoon, farmers grow different types of crops in the field. Of which, chilly is one among them. In …
Kumar (35), a farmer from Ayyanahalli committed suicide on Thursday, consuming pesticide after the potato crop he had grown in his 2 acre land failed due to
