Submissions by DGM Project Punjab Mandi Board in the matter of Kapil Dev & Others Vs State of Punjab & Others dated January 14, 2025. All possible efforts were being made by the Punjab Mandi Board to comply with the NGT guidelines and to dispose of the vegetable waste of …
PARADIP: They survive on wild mushrooms and saag. With the vegetables out of reach, the poor people in remote areas of Jagatsinghpur district have found a means to quench their hunger in the inedible forest produce. In what seems to be a grim reminder of the Kalahandi situation, where famished …
Cardiovascular disease including heart attacks and strokes are the world's largest killer claiming 17.5 million lives a year. Talking to newsmen here on Wednesday, Cardiologist Dr Zaman Baloch said there were 155 millions overweight and obese children globally. He said heart disease and stroke was largely preventable if the main …
Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration will construct more mini dams in rural areas of the federal capital to development agriculture and facilitate farmers, said Islamabad Chief Commissioner Fazeel Asghar on Tuesday. He was addressing the first meeting of ICT farmers co-ordination committee. Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Amer Ali Ahmed, Agriculture Extension …
Tops and tails are becoming much more than garbage at Gills Onions, an onion processor in Oxnard, Calif. Today marks the unveiling of the company's onion-powered electrical system, a first-of-its-kind initiative to turn onion waste into energy. "This whole project is about eliminating our onion waste," explained Steven Gill, an …
The ninth species of the tomato leaf curl virus in India is found supriya chakraborty was used to tomato farmers in Varanasi complaining about their dwarfed plants that would produce no fruits. The agriculture scientist saw many farmers shift to other crops. First the leaves would turn yellow, curl up …
The government is set to make the potato an essential commodity to prevent hoarding. Finance minister Asim Dasgupta said he would issue a notification tomorrow declaring potatoes
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization(UNIDO) has launched two pilot projects for vegetable cultivation in Batticaloa under the water sprinkler system which increases productivity by 90 percent, National Director UNIDO Nawaz Rajabdeen told Daily News Business. He said that this project is very successful and UNIDO will identify more viable …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has said that Rs 8 crore has been allocated for extending organic farming of plantain, vegetables, ginger and pepper in 8,000 hectares in the State. In a written reply to the Assembly on Thursday, the Minister said that the State Horticulture Mission and Agriculture Department …
Land degradation, subsistence farming with poor crop harvests and lack of employment opportunities has resulted in poverty in eastern ghats of Orissa. To avert the situation, IWDP and TDET watershed projects were implemented in Kokriguda watershed which represents the resource position of this tribal region, during 1997 to 2003.
This paper attempts to provide an ex-post assessment of the field level impact and economic viability of the SRRP using the empirically derived estimates of the average income impacts that the application of bentonite or clay technology has generated among farm communities in Northeast Thailand. These impact estimates for the …
This paper attempts to provide an ex-post assessment of the field level impact and economic viability of the SRRP using the empirically derived estimates of the average income impacts that the application of bentonite or clay technology has generated among farm communities in Northeast Thailand. These impact estimates for the …
Based on six indices, the warm subhumid to cool-humid Western Himalayan Region, consisting of the Kashmir valley, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, could be designated as an Agricultural Biodiversity Heritage Site. This region is rich in agro-biodiversity, with a large number of species being cultivated. Unique multicrop and horticulture based farming/production …
This latest report by ISAAA documents how various stakeholders from 14 countries in Africa and Asia have benefited from science communication efforts and how in turn, they are now part of the process of realizing a collective voice on crop biotechnology. Communicating Crop Biotechnology: Stories from Stakeholders documents how various …
The Union finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, today said there was a need to upgrade the food processing industries in the state to preserve excess supply of vegetables and fruit. He was speaking at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of a new manufacturing edible oil refinery unit at Haldia this morning. …
The agri-experts at a function here on Wednesday stressed the need for cultivating various vegetables on a large scale through organic method to meet its demand and avoid various health hazards. "Human bodies may be attacked with chronicle diseases by slow poisoning if we take the vegetables produced with chemical …
Restaurant chain McDonald's Europe launched a farming program on Thursday which could lead to cows getting weekly foot baths but water being saved in the production of lettuce and tomatoes. The company, which has 6,600 restaurants in 40 European countries, is seeking to tackle a wide range of environmental and …
Cultivation of vegetables in net houses is set to get a boost in Punjab with 1,000 acres likely to be covered under net houses this year, even as the state Finance Ministry has cleared the way for the appointment of agriculture graduates to ensure a smooth conduct of the scheme. …
