Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution. Controlling pollution hinges on knowing its quantity (wastewater and solid waste volume) and characteristics (major pollutants and their concentration range, nature of wastes, …
Researchers from Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine have teamed up with a water works equipment manufacturer in Hokkaido to turn cow manure into a material that can be used as snow-melting agent and as a printing ink.
The great Caspian caviar fishery, formerly, controlled and protected by the Soviet Union, has degenerated into a dangerous free-for-all that threatens the invaluable sturgeon with extinction. On the Volga in Russia, on the Ural in Kazakhstan, and most devastingly on the open Caspian Sea, caviar poachers are butchering a species …
Nearly 37 countries are facing food emergencies as against 31 countries that had faced food shortages towards the end of last year. The food shortages are mainly due to the effects of El Ni
A Rs. 450-crore shrimp farm and fish culture project in brackish water, funded by the World Bank, was inaugurated by the West Bengal Governor today. This is the first of three such World Bank-aided projects to be completed. The others are at Canning and Dighirpar in South-24 Parganas and Dadanpatrabar …
The seafood industry has asked the Centre to withdraw the recently introduced 8 per cent excise duty on branded fish and fishery products sold in the domestic markets since the major chunk of production is meant for exports. The Seafood Exporter's Association President, Mr A J Tharakan, said that all …
Sea food exporters have urged the Orissa Government that instead of imposing a ban on shrimp farming altogether in the demarcated area, fishing should be regulated in such a manner that pollution from shrimp farming is controllable. This view was expressed by the Orissa unit of the Sea Food Exporters …
In view of breeding season of fish, Madhya Pradesh government has imposed a total ban on fishing for two months from June 16. During this period, fish sale and its transportation will be prohibited.
A European Union ban on the use of drift nets in open seas was under negotiation with fisheries ministers haggling over how it should be implemented. UK proposed that drift netting should be phased out over four years, rather than three previously suggested. But Spain was insisting on strict annual …
The Asian Development Bank is threatening to suspend a $62m financing facility for Ho Chi Minh City's water and sewerage rehabilitation project unless Vietnam accepts an ADB ruling on selection of a contractor for the scheme's largest component, an 11 km long water pipeline.
The Andhra Pradesh fishermen cooperative societies' rights protection committee on Sunday called off its agitation following several assurances by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on their demands.
The National Human Rights Commission has called upon the Centre and the West Bengal Government to continue with the requisite measures for providing safe drinking water in the State and also introduce more capital intensive programmes to check the spread of arsenic pollution.The NHRC observed that clinical research and health …
Even as a special train is on its way bringing lakhs of astham patients to the Battina Goud brothers for their special fish cure, the treatment is facing a problem of its own: there may not be enough fish going around. There are doubts whether this annual event would go …
The United States led a drive in the United Nations to ban the large drift nets and applied enormous pressure on Asian users, mainly Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, until they agreed to give them up. The ban took place on June 30, 1992. But six years later the practice …
The National Environment Board yesterday rejected an Agriculture Ministry proposal to relax its resolution to ban shrimp farming in the freshwater zone. The board insisted on keeping the ban on the grounds the activity degraded soil quality and promoted "slash-and-burn cultivation"in which farmers move to new ground after their farms …
The Kerala government has banned fishing trawlers from operating in the Arabian coast during the monsoon season to conserve fish wealth. The ban comes into effect from 1 June and will last for 45 days. But the powerful fishermen's forum has expressed total dissatisfaction with the ban period and has …
The Kerala Government is likely to abandon the Rs 75-crore Kuwait-aided "Kerala Fisheries Development Project for Prawn Culture", following steep rise in the project cost caused by the delay in its implementation. The project envisaged in 1989 was scheduled to be completed in March 1998 but the target achieved was …
If promises could be turned into safe drinking water, then Delhi's thirst would have been quenched. Even as the city goes dry in the grip of water-borne diseases, authorities have taken to the easiest crisis management possible : Dole out promises. The new-born Delhi Jal Board has been taking major …
Greenpeace has found driftnetters in just over a week-ten days before the EU Fisheries Council meets to discuss a proposal to ban the destructive fishing gear.
The Kerala Cabinet decided today to impose a ban on trawling for 45 days from June 15 in the coastal waters of Kerala. The ban, on the lines of ones imposed in previous years, is aimed at conserving fish resources.
