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 …
giving Africa's hiv-positive children a cheap antibiotic could nearly halve the mortality induced by aids, as per research published in The Lancet. Dianna Gibb and her colleagues from the Medical Research Council, Zambia, studied 541 children with aids- related infections; these children were living in areas where resistance to common …
a recent discovery could help overcome a limitation of biopesticides. These insect repellents, based on microorganisms like Bacillus thuringiensis, are far better than their chemical counterparts, as they do not pollute environs. But to be effective, they need to be ingested, which takes a long time. In addition, there is …
To produce the food most farmers use chemical pesticides to control weeds, pests and diseases, and to help them meet the appearance standards imposed by supermarkets. Residues from these pesticides may still be in the food when buy it - about half of all fruit and vegetables tested by the …
IT COULD well be one of the most exhaustive scientific pursuits undertaken in post-independence India. The All India Coordinated Research Project on Ethnobiology (AICRPE) has unearthed a large spectrum of uses that tribal popuations of the country make of plants and animals. Home to some of the world's most diverse …
researchers in India are developing neem-based pesticides that could help increase crop yield without harming the environment. G P Gupta and Kirti Sharma from the division of entomo-logy at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (iari), New Delhi, have devised a neem-based pest management strategy for cotton crops. They have developed …
odours produced by plants can repel crop pests and invite insects' enemies. Researcher John Pickett of uk 's leading arable crop research centre at Rothamsted in Hertfordshire is developing perfumes that work as insecticides. Picketts' scents are produced by plants themselves to keep off unwanted pests ( New Scientist , …
OF LATE, Bacillus thuriengiensis, a soil bacterium, has become a microbiologist's hot property, owing to its ability to make a protein toxin (13t) which selectively kills an insect consuming this protein. The sensitivity of these insects which include mosquitoes, beetles, butterfly- larvae and aphids, depends upon the genotypes of the …
DAIRY farmers in developing countries invariably face a major problem because if the fresh milk from a healthy cow is not cooled and does not reach the processor within five hours after milking, it is rendered unsuitable for processing. This results in loss of time, labour and valuable nutrition. But …
"Following the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992, there had been a worldwide interest in developing and promoting 'green technologies'. After that. the International Business Council's book, Changing Course, came up with the theory that good ecology is also good business. All this has generated much interest …
A FUNGUS that virtually eats into every conceivable part of the, rubber tree - Hevea brasiliensis - has finally met its match in an environment-friendly deterrent. Researchers from the Rubber Research Institute, (RRI) in Kottayam, Kerala, have developed a new ecofriendly fungicide from wood extracts of five locally available tree. …
Australian researchers have devised a novel method to deal with caterpillars that create havoc in their cotton fields. They have developed a variety of cotton that kills the caterpillars (New Scientist, Vo1148, No 1998). Genetic engineers at the CSIRO, Australia's national research organisation, have introduced a gene for a natural …
Women farm labourers are more vulnerable to pesticide poisoning -- and they don't even know it. A survey of 13 states conducted by the Consumers Forum, in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Consumer Organisations and the All India Women's Conference, found that pesticide-induced headaches, vomiting and uneasiness were common …
THE KARNATAKA Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), which recently destroyed a processing unit of multinational Cargill Seeds, has lent strong support to a broad-based campaign against a plant set up in collaboration with W R Grace & Co of USA to produce a biopesticide from neem seeds. KRRS and several other …
SMALL farmers who cannot afford expensive rat-poisons now have a cheap, natural alternative: A fastgrowing tropical tree, Ghricidia sepium, whose leaves when fermented act as a potent rat-killer (Ceres, Vol 25, No 2). The vermin die of internal bleeding as the toxin reduces production of prothrombin, a blood-clotting agent secreted …
In Andhra Pradesh dip their hands in fresh milk while transplanting seedlings.They know - but until now, not why - that this traditional practice prevents the spread of tobacco mosaic virus. Researchers at the Centre for Cellular and Mollecular Biology in Hydrabad say their studies indicate that an enzyme in …
AMRITBHAI Agrawat, a blacksmith from Pikhor village in Gujarat, stared fascinatedly at a barber shaving a customer. Intrigued by the barber's twin-blade razor, Agrawat's agile mind started a process that ended months later in his fashioning a new tool for harvesting groundnuts. An inveterate inventor, with a tally of more …
SEVEN years ago Haribhai Patel of Alindri village in Gujarat's Junagadh district stopped using pesticides and chemical fertilisers in his fields because he noticed birds that ate pests killed by the chemicals, died in turn. He began experimenting with organic farming and after a lengthy process of trial and error, …
RESOURCEFUL villagers in Badi, about 40 km from Jodhpur, resorted to a traditional Indian water-harvesting technique to overcome extreme water shortage. They constructed a small embankment (khadin) to collect rainwater. Building a khadin begins with locating a natural depression. The depression acts like a basin into which rainwater channels run. …
