The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
India Development Foundation funded by the British High Commission, carried out this study on challenges to investments and trade in five sectors of agri-business in India - dairy, horticulture, oilseeds, wheat milling, and poultry. This report attempts at answering some questions and showcases some successful cases where players in select …
gases produced by ruminating dairy cattle have brought trouble for dairy owners in San Joaquin Valley, California, the us. Around 400-500 of the 1,500 valley dairies will now have to obtain air-operating permits, mandatory for all agricultural operations emitting over 25,000 pounds of volatile organic compounds (vocs) annually. Dairies have …
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The Delhi high court has ordered the city government to clarify its stand on shifting 2,600 unauthorised dairies from different parts of the city to a proposed dairy colony. The court also issued notices to the ministry of health and the animal welfare director on the manufacture and sale of …
sakariyapura , a sleepy little village some distance from the chemical township of Nandesari, about 23 kilometres from Vadodara in Gujarat, is experiencing a revolution of sorts. At the outset it looks no different from any other village, but the local women are intensely involved in earning their livelihood in …
after Dolly, the world's first adult cloned mammal, it is the turn of the Indian buffalo. Scientists at the National Diary Research Institute ( ndri ), Karnal have claimed to have developed a procedure for producing several identical buffalo calves from a single embryo. They are in the final stages …
A revival of the dairy industry of this Caribbean island, which would provide economic self-reliance to its inhabitants, is in the offing. An eight-week study conducted by the London-based Commonwealth Secretariat disclosed that the industry could do with some propping exercises and has developed a milk production enhancement plan in …
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 …
REPEATING the Biblical parable of the mustard seed growing like a banyan tree, a mini dairy under a social service project has mushroomed into a massive people's dairy network within 2 decades. Begun with 5 cattle in 1973, the People's Dairy Development Project (PDDP) - now spread over the 3 …
The US dairy industry is having second thoughts about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Jim Bar, the head of the National Milk Producers' Federation, has complained that GATT, as currently structured, is a net loss to North American dairy producers, in a letter to US diminutive but …
FACED with a surplus of milk, US dairy farmers have turned to researchers to put their excess milk to new uses. Two fruits of this unique research pact may soon hit the market -- edible packaging and tidier yoghurt. By playing around with the amino acids of a milk protein …
IN THE treeless, barren and rocky district of Kutch in Gujarat, the Shree Vivakanand Research and Training Institute (VRTI), or the sanstha as it is known locally, has carved a name for itself in drought relief and ecological regeneration activity. The Kutch region, which is named so because its topography …
A PROPOSAL by the National Dairy Development Board to import bovine somatotropin (BST), a synthetic growth hormone for cattle, has run into objections from the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), which insists it must first clear BST for safety before it can be used in field tests. The European …
