Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Specific aphid identified as predominant virus vector the papaya ring spot virus causes extensive damages to papaya, watermelon, squash, cucumber and pumpkin. Scientists suggest that the best way to reduce the loss is to cultivate these plants at a distance from each other and avoid their monoculture. A study, published …
An insect removal bin developed by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu promises to remove insects automatically from stored food grains. The structure has four major parts namely outer container, inner perforated container, collection vessel and the lid. Special container The grains are held in the specially …
Tirunelveli FARMERS in and around Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai, who cultivated cotton, vegetables, and sunflower, are in a shock over a mysterious disease, which caused heavy damage to the crops. Farmers from Gangaikondan, Anaithalaiyoor, Paruthikulam, Maanur and other areas surrounding Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai have cultivated cotton, vegetables and sunflower on 600 …
An experiment was carried out at Maud Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam following the ancient techniques of controlling pests based on information given in Surapala's Vrikshayurveda and Chakrapani Mishra's Vishvavallabha.
Deckiajuli Tea Estate in Assam, India has been grappling with the issue of what should be considered as a ideal crop management system for tea plantation. The planters felt that the use of chemicals was not giving satisfactory results and they decided to grow tea organically. To achieve these objectives, …
Tea (Camellia sinensis) is an important commercial crop extensively cultivated in Assam. Being grown as a monocrop, many insect and mite pests are prevalent in the tea plantations causing considerable crop loss. Use of traditional plant protection measures for pest management in tea has not been considered feasible considering the …
locusts move in swarms to save their butts. Literally, say researchers from the us, the uk and Australia. They are a menace for crops, because they move around in swarms. But their collective movement is hardly a sign of unity. The fact is there is a constant threat of attack …
Bamboo has a peculiar phenomenon of flowering. Flowering in bamboo draws attention, as it dies after flowering and is believed to cause famine. Gregarious flowering occurred in 1958, which was followed by the 1959 famine. John and Nadgauda showed that there is a connection between the incidence of bamboo flowering …
Ahmedabad: Early birds among BT cotton farmers in Surendranagar and Bhavnagar districts have been bit by the millibug. Those farmers who had sown BT cotton just 20 to 25 days ago in their farms are the worst affected in Surendranagar and Bhavnagar districts. There are several cases where farmers have …
On 5 June 2008, an authorized, small-scale field trial of transgenic potato plants for nematode control was destroyed by people seeking to coerce government and society. It was one of only two trials authorized in the United Kingdom this year. Our concern is that Directive 2001/18/EC, the European Union (EU) …
Caution India-Pakistan border at risk Swarms of locusts that were in Tajikistan in the last week of April, have moved into Afghanistan. Authorities say the outbreak was unprecedented and are examining the extent of infestation. The plague of locusts have worsened the situation in provinces of Badghis and Herat, which …
Cotton, as a commercial crop has gone through subsistence, ecological, exploitation, crisis and disaster phases of pest management, with insecticides on focus at the later three stages. Restructuring of pest-management strategies during the last few decades under the banner of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) or Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM)continued to …
The Rythu Sadassu in Paloncha revenue division succeeded in achieving its goal for sustainable farming and expanding bio-agriculture. Farmers from 18 mandals including Aswapuram, Burgumpahad, Manuguru, Pinapaka, Kukkunur, Velie-rpad and Paloncha attended the meeting. The farmers decided to start bio-farming in 30,000 acre in the 18 mandals and they would …
Studies on development and promotion of IPM technology in rainfed, Bt and non-Bt cotton varieties were carried out for four consecutive years (2001-2004) at the two locations at Nawandi and Loha, Nanded in 6th agro-ecological region of India. Sucking pests were 31.4% and 12.2% more in non-IPM than the IPM …
The relative toxicity of emulsions of various pyrethroids was evaluated against the third instar larvae of Pieris brassicae in the laboratory. Except fenvalerate, the synthetic pyrethroids viz, deltamethrin, cyhalothrin, alphamethrin, bifenthrin, fenpropathrin and cyfluthrin were found to be highly toxic, their relative toxicity values being 23.2, 14.5, 10.5, 8.92, 7.73 …
Population of Rhizopertha dominica Fab. selected for resistance by single pre-storage application of deltamethrin, pirimiphos methyl and a newer PGP-2 along with the laboratory susceptible culture tested for resistance to deltamethrin, chlorpyriphos methyl and fenvalerate after two years of wheat storage indicated no appreciable resistance in various selections except for …
Field experiments were conducted from 2001-2004 to develop management strategies for painted bug, Bagrada hilaris (Burm.) inflicting injury to mustard (Brassica juncea) at seedling stage grown in sandy loam soil of arid Rajasthan.
This study was carried out as an on-farm research for development and validation of IPM module in participatory mode by involving scientists, pesticide industry and farmers. Major objective was to develop environment friendly, economically sustainable and socially acceptable programme for Punjab and Haryana states to cut down the expenditure on …
