Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
KOLKATA, 10 DEC: The West Bengal horticulture department is planning to set up six multi-purpose cold storage units in the state under the National Horticulture Mission. The initiative has been taken after it was found that most of the fruit and vegetables were wasting away after harvest due to poor …
While other states are giving out distress signals of foodgrain scarcity, triggered by drought and flood fury, Punjab is not only looking at a good harvest but also hoping to gain from this adversity. With forecasts for paddy-growing states such as West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar predicting lower than …
This study presents bacteriocin, produced from Bacillus sp. MTCC 43 isolated from rhizosphere of root crop radish, Raphanus sativus, as inhibitor against serious food pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus and Aeromonas hydrophila). Bacteriocin of Bacillus sp. MTCC 43, partially purified by salt saturation method, exhibits very high activity (2.66 x 105 AU/ml). …
CUTTACK: It is a Hamelin like situation in Malgodown. Already battling a foodgrains inflow crisis, traders at the largest commodities market of Orissa, have now found themselves in the midst of a severe rodent attack. Rats swarming the godowns and storage cells are not only damaging foodgrains in large quantities …
BHUBANESWAR: The inconsistent monsoon seems to have clouded the food security issue of the common man. The country is going to see a 10 million tonne fall in rice output this kharif season with Orissa being a significant contributor to reduced productivity. The situation in Orissa is going to be …
Stacked in the open exposed to the vagaries of climate, more than 8 million metric tonnes of wheat procured by five government procurement agencies have been rotting in various places in Punjab. The grains, stored by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and the state government, have been packed in …
Raiganj, July 15: The nesting birds in the Kulik sanctuary are facing shortage of food because of lack of rainfall. Like other years, a large number of open-bill storks, cormorants and herons have set up rookeries for breeding with the advent of the monsoon. But for the past one month, …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI June 25: The government is not pressing the panic button despite a rain-deficient June riding on the hope that the delayed monsoon will not affect its food stocks. "There is no need for panic. We hope normal monsoon activity in the country during the July-August period …
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. …
New Delhi: Ahead of finalising the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA), the government is struggling first to enumerate the actual number of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families in the country and to identify agencies both at the Centre and the states to take the legal responsibility for implementing the …
A tripartite meeting of top officials of US, Pakistan, and Afghanistan held here Thursday and they agreed on a working plan to alleviate poverty through rapid agriculture growth, as a step forward addressing the root-cause of terrorism and extremism. Food and Agriculture Minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal who led Pakistan's delegation …
The study conducted on 120 rural and urban homemakers in two randomly selected panchayat wards and two municipal council wards of district Kangra of Himachal Pradesh revealed their knowledge regarding indigenous resource management practices. Results showed that knowledge levels vary among rural and urban homemakers which were tested with Z- …
IT looks like a walking stick but can work wonders for warehouse managers struggling to keep in check insects that bug grains stored in the warehouse. S Mohan, professor of Agri Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), has invented a device that can trap insects in warehouses. The TNAU has …
Indigenous practices play a vital role in sustainable agriculture development and are unique to a given culture of society. An exhaustive survey was conducted in dry tracts of Tamil Nadu to document the indigenous storage structures used by farmers. Information was documented by using participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques. During …
