Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
Soil quality (SQ) is the capacity of a specific kind of a soil to function, within natural and managed ecosystem boundaries, to sustain plant and animal productivity, maintain or enhance water and air quality, and support human health and habitation.
Tobacco Board in association with M/s ITC-ABD ILimited, Mysore have jointly undertaken a massive campaign appealing to farmers against indiscriminate usage of pesticides on tobacco crop quality due to pesticide residues.According to a press release here, the aim of this campaign was to educate the farmers on the various types …
July 22: Spurious fertilisers are causing concern to farmers in Kadapa district. There is a great demand for fertilisers in the district as kharif season is coming to an end. In this backdrop, fake fertilisers are being imported into the district. Glass pieces, condom packets and needles found in fertiliser …
Yoginder K Alagh : If agricultural output did not go down in a major drought, some big comments and questions should have been raised. The comments should have been on the changing nature of the economy, its resilience and strengths. There should have been questions about how we can sustain …
Anju Agnihotri Chaba Since the advent of the Green Revolution popularised use of excessive irrigation and fertilisers in India in the 1960s, biodynamic farming, an advanced form of organic farming, had largely faded into oblivion. Biodynamic farming, a return to natural farming free from the use of pesticides and chemicals, …
The global economy has faced two serious but unconnected crises in quick succession during the past four years. The years 2007 and 2008 witnessed an unprecedented rise in food prices which forced the global community to pay more attention to the agricultural sector. While many international development agencies and countries …
Agriculture is the core sector of Indian economy. The share of agriculture and allied sectors in total GDP presently is about 16 percent and it engages nearly 52 per cent of the national workforce. Agriculture therefore continues to remain the principal source of livelihood for the majority of households in …
The early nineties saw a substantial overhauling of the Indian economy through Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), which encompassed a number of measures, viz., liberalisation of export-import policy, drastic lowering of import duties on many products, removal of import restrictions, reduction of investment in the agricultural and industrial sectors so as …
NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP Brinda Karat has sought to know from the Centre the progress of its promised CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices by Dow Chemical in bribing Indian officials to sell the pesticide dursban produced by it here. In a letter to Union …
Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices indulged in by Dow Chemical to bribe Indian officials for selling in India a pesticide, Dursban, which is produced by them. In a letter written to the union agriculture minister Sharad …
Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices indulged in by Dow Chemical to bribe Indian officials for selling in India a pesticide, Dursban, which is produced by them. In a letter written to the union agriculture minister Sharad …
Agricultural price policy has come under serious attack recently for recommending support prices higher than what the costs of production warrant, supposedly leading to a distortion of the market, and, therefore, to food deprivation. With an in-depth analysis of costs and returns in rice and wheat, which are the most …
S.H. Venkatramani The exclusive and focused cultivation of a single crop in any given geography has completely stymied genetic variety and biodiversity in our farms and fields. Apart from destroying natural biodiversity, singlecrop monoculture carries the high risk of extensive crops being routed by a single pest. TODAY, THERE is …
Spatial location of the farm households shapes farming practices and livelihoods of the farmers. Many socio-economic variables have strong spatial relations that would otherwise be missed by data aggregation at household level. Geographic Information System (GIS) provides display and analysis of socio-economic data that may be fundamental for many social …
A field experiment was conducted during kharif and rabi season to study the organic, integrated and pure chemical fertilizers as a source of nutrition on maize growth, macro and micro nutrient uptake on irrigated sandy loam soil in maize-wheat sequence.
The Farmers' Welfare Department has been undertaking constant preparations for supplying hybrid and high quality seeds to farmers during the kharif season. A meeting was held at the Mantralaya on Tuesday for reviewing the preparations. The meeting was chaired by Principal Secretary Agriculture and Cooperatives MM Upadhayay. At the meting, …
Trudy Rubin The goal is to end the farmers' addiction to chemical fertilisers China's leadership has recognised the problem and adopted new regulations on industrial and agricultural pollution. But that doesn't guarantee that all local officials -- let alone polluters -- will follow the rules ANLONG, a small village on …
