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 …
Health Dept Gets Spl Refrigerators To Store Samples Rumu Banerjee | TNN New Delhi: This summer, your complaints about vegetable adulteration may actually get addressed. The city health department is in the process of acquiring industrial size refrigerators, needed to store testing samples. Apparently, till now, prosecution of those found …
A study on the biodiversity and relative abundance of spiders associated with the horticultural ecosystem including fruit and vegetable crops in Kashmir, were conducted during 2005-2007. A total of 5774 individuals belonging to 40 species, 23 genera under 11 families were recorded first-time from Kashmir.
In periurban Hyderabad, India, leafy vegetables are increasingly grown along the Musi River and sold in urban markets. This agricultural biodiversity can significantly help urban and periurban farmers become more resilient to the impacts of such changes.
Increasing urban production of perishable foods can increase diversity in the food system, adding new products, producers, techniques and systems that will resist different threats and meet different needs. As Australia continues to struggle with water scarcity and increasing climate extremes, food production in and around its cities can contribute …
This latest ISAAA publication provides comprehensive and up-to-date status of field trials and commercialization of biotech crops in India in 2008. It summarizes the national and farm-level impact during last seven years of commercialization of Bt cotton in India. This publication provides a comprehensive and up-to-date status of the field …
Genetic engineering promises big benefits for this humble vegetable Baingan bharta in North India, begun bhaja in Bengal, vaangi bhaat or bharleli vaangi in Maharashtra, katrikai sambar in the South... but the bad news is that one pest can spoil them all. The villain of the piece is the fruit …
When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease In 1769, the wheat crop failed in France. Bread, the French staple, disappeared from boulangerie shelves. There was rioting in the streets of Paris and hordes of undernourished people looted bakeries. The French monarchy which had just scraped …
The humble potato has come a long way IN 1852, Karl Marx described the peasantry as a sack of potatoes. The fickle attitude of farmers towards the short-lived Paris Commune had irked the old revolutionary. He would be a little less condescending towards peasants, elsewhere. But according to all evidence …
Speakers at a seminar held here on Monday stressed the need for sustainable development of agricultural sector in Baltistan. They said people of the region were self-sufficient in wheat and other agricultural products in the past but presently they were paying less attention to this sector due to which the …
New Delhi: Political parties wondered about the impact of the heat wave on the third phase of the parliamentary polls and electrical appliance sellers rubbed their hands in glee as the weather reports promised a prolonged spell cutting across most parts of the country. For consumers in the city, scorching …
Alison Baum of San Antonio, Texas hopes to save money and eat better by getting her hands dirty. She is joining the swelling ranks of Americans who have started backyard fruit and vegetable gardening, a trend rooted in a desire to cut costs as the recession bites, fears about the …
The innocuous-looking Brinjal is now causing great outrage as its genetically modified variant waiting for clearance, says Kavitha Srinivasa What if a consumer doesn
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India wants to know what a groundbreaking 2006 UN report concluded: 'Raising animals for food generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, ships and planes in the world combined.' That is why the group will display on Tuesday (World Earth …
ACCORDING to a recent study carried out by the UN agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation, intensive cropping in some agro-ecological regions of the country is causing long term degradation of natural resources and the environment and hampering food security. As reported by national media, the use of fertilisers in low …
Barrack plain reservoir in Nuwara Eliya constructed by the British rulers in 1885 to provide irrigational facilities to the Uva Paranagama area is in ruins due to neglect and misuse. The Irrigation Department or the Nuwara Eliya Municipal Council has not paid any attention to maintaining the reservoir that spreads …
