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 …
Tuticorin: Tamil Nadu Integrated Agriculture Modernization and Water bodies Restoration Management (TN-IAMWARM) has been implementing a scheme with the assistance of the World Bank in the Shencottaiyar sub-basin at Vilathikulam taluk in Tuticorin district. At a function organised by the Department of Horticulture in Vilathikulam block on Friday, R. Gurumurthy, …
Barely a week before the Union Budget for 2010-11, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government today raised urea prices 10 per cent. It also allowed the industry to fix retail prices of other subsidised fertilisers, while limiting the government
In 2009, for the first time since the 1950s and the early stages of the Green Revolution, food security was taken seriously by policy-makers. There was substantial output from the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, and with studies by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences …
China is the world's largest user of synthetic fertilizer, consuming 36% of the global total. As a result, China's farmers have exceeded soil needs, causing nitrates to accumulate and create serious pollution problems. And the hunger for nitrogen has added to China's energy and greenhouse gas emissions: In the atmosphere, …
On the surface it looks like a paradox. When agricultural production in most other states is plummeting, Gujarat, with large semi-arid tracts that were alien to good crops, offers a turnaround story. Last year, it posted an agricultural growth of 9.6 per cent against a national average of 2.9 per …
KRISHNAGIRI: Quality seeds are essential for rain-fed farming, Dr. A.K. Mani, Professor and Head, Regional Research Station of the Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, Paiyur said here on Thursday. Solid foundation Presiding over the three-day training programme on imparting knowledge and skills on seed production to the farmers and farm women, …
THODUPUZHA: In an effort to encourage bio-farming, the Central Government has decided to provide subsidy for bio-manure. Inaugurating the meeting of farmers as part of the `Agrifest
COIMBATORE: Insecticides India Private Limited, an agro-chemicals manufacturing company, aims at achieving six per cent market share in Tamil Nadu. According to Rajesh Aggarwal, Managing Director of the company, the agro-chemicals market in the State was estimated to be Rs. 300 crore. The company would focus on the Southern States …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi November 10, 2009, 0:23 IST The proposed policy of direct transfer of fertiliser subsidy to farmers is misconceived and inappropriate, according to a study by scholars of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A). The study has discounted several common notions about fertiliser subsidy, including one …
Phosphate-based fertilizers have helped spur agricultural gains in the past century, but the world may soon run out of them. Natasha Gilbert investigates the potential phosphate crisis.
The demand for biofuels has recently increased because of rising prices of fossil fuels and diversification of energy resources. As a result, the demand for sugarcane and corn has been increasing, not only for food production, but also as sources of energy. In this context, securing supplies of phosphorus, required …
Efficient management of nutrients constitutes one of the most important factors to achieve agronomic and environmental targets of intensive crop production systems. Agricultural intensification requires increased uptake of nutrients by crops. The depletion of nutrient reserves from the soil is often a hidden form of land degradation.
With the reclaiming of one third of land and increasing its fishing zone by two thirds from the war torn North and East, Sri Lanka would be agriculturally one of the wealthiest nations by 2015, Trade, Co- Operative and Consumer Affairs Minister Bandula Gunawardena said during his Wednesday
