Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of New item titled "Â major fire breaks out at Bhagtanwala Dump” appearing in The Tribune dated 11.05.2024 dated 01/04/2025. The application, registered suo motu, the tribunal considered the issue of legacy waste which has been accumulated at Bhagtanwala garbage dump …
india boasts the world's largest livestock population. The world's largest milk producer has no clue about the amount of fodder available for its animals and the state of its rangelands. There are parts of India where fodder costs as much, if not more, as food. And then comes research showing …
The use of clean fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) instead of biomass-based fuels used for cooking in India would be beneficial in several ways. However, only about 33.6 million or 17.5% of all Indian homes use LPG as their primary cooking fuel, with 90% of rural homes still …
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Till last year, Laksman Rao Kaldate of Istal village in Maharashtra’s Beed district thought that the agricultural waste generated in his soyabean fields had little economic value. In fact, most farmers of the area had hardly any use for agrowaste. “The common practice was to burn it down,” says Kaldate. …
suspended particulate matter (spm) levels suddenly spiral in rural Punjab in the month of October. The culprit: fires lit by burning huge piles of stubble from rice plants in almost every field. According to the Punjab Pollution Control Board (ppcb), the permissible limit for spm for residential areas is 200 …
To put it in a nutshell, the factors that have contributed to the lack of development of organic market in India include low awareness about the perils of chemically farmed products, high prices of organic produce, lack of consumer confidence in organic food standards and their erratic supply. Smritee Singh, …
The government's interventions have focused on promoting certified organic production, missing out the challenge of using the organic route to reward traditional, marginal farmers. This misplaced priority seems to be changing. A master plan for the production of organic coffee is almost ready. Formulated by the coffee board, the plan …
guwahati is all set to get a clean image with the launch of two ambitious projects that will gradually rid the city of garbage. Under the new schemes, waste collected from the city will be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity in two separate ventures. Guwahati-based North East Green Tech …
To meet the power demands of rice mills, a small-scale unit based in Tanuka, Andhra Pradesh has developed a low-cost technology to generate electricity using rice husk. After three years of research, Associated Engineering Works have come up with the rice husk gasifier, which won them the department of scientific …
Yields from the rice-wheat cropping system in the Indo-Gangetic plain are declining despite the increasing use of chemical fertilizers. Crop residues are important components of soil fertility management, but are burnt in some areas such as Punjab state. Not only does this mean a loss of nutrients but also causes …
About 150 million tonnes of forestry waste and 350 million tonnes of agricultural residue are produced in India every year. However, a major portion of the wastes is not utilised. Scientists in India have devised pyrolysis method to convert biomass into charcoal briquettes that could benefit users and generate employment …
The firewood crisis has not resulted in a forest crisis. For years, energy experts and foresters have believed that the poor will eat away the forests of the developing world like locusts in order to meet their ever-growing firewood demand. But how much do we really know about the poor …
Given this background, the results of the latest survey on firewood consumption pattern in India's rural areas published by Natarajan in 1995 are quite stunning. This survey generated data for the year 1992-93 whereas the last comprehensive energy consumption survey conducted by the ncaer had presented data for 1978-79. No …
The question today, therefore, is: Is the rosy picture presented by the ncaer survey of 1992-93 equally applicable to these areas? The 1991 census also shows that states with large tracts of hills and mountains like the Northeastern states and those with dry regions like Rajasthan are still heavily dependent …
One factor that no study has been able to analyse is to what extent the farmers of India have reacted to the firewood crisis and started to grow trees on their farmlands and private fallow lands or protect their forests. Surely, one would expect a rational economic response from farmers …
Researchers at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, have developed a fuel-efficient bio-mass gas stove. The bio-gas could be produced from animal and crop wastes, and used for domestic and agricultural purposes including irrigation. Bio-mass gasifiers covert agro-wastes into clean and combustible gas called "producer gas', which could be …
Banana leaves can now be converted into an energy-rich fuel. Researchers at the Centre of Biochemical Technology (CBT), New Delhi, have devised two methods to generate fuel from banana leaves. V C Kalia, a scientist at CBT's biotechnology division, says that one method called pellitisation or briquetting involves crushing banana …
