Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Why Gobindobhog rice fails to yield in saline soil? gobindobhog aromatic rice is essential to many delicacies in eastern India. This small-grain rice variety commands high premium in domestic and international markets. But its cultivation is limited to a few districts, such as Nadia, Murshidabad, Bankura and Purulia, in West …
T.V. Sivanandan GULBARGA: Scientists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) are preparing to meet the serious threat to wheat cultivation in the country from the
To satisfy the world's growing demand for food, scientists are trying to pull off a genetic trick that nature itself has had trouble accomplishing in millions of years of evolution. They want to create varieties of corn, wheat and other crops that can thrive with little water. As the world's …
National Centre for Integrated Pest Management (NCIPM), a national research centre of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India was established in February, 1988 to cater to the emerging plant protection needs of different agro-ecological zones of the country. The activities of the centre extend across and beyond different disciplines …
The Ministry of Agriculture,a branch of the Government of India, is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to agriculture in India.
When an equal amount of sulphate (deposited by acid rain) was added, it reduced methane emission by 43 per cent. Adding sulphate to soil in paddy fields is a popular method of controlling methane emission, to the tune of up to 70 per cent. In highly polluted countries such as …
DH News Service, Sringeri: A delegation of Arecanut Research Centre in Teerthahalli led by Dr B R Gurumurthy held a visit to the areca plantation of progressive farmer Balakrishna Mavinakadu. The team discussed the methods followed by Mr Balakrishna to control
Mahyco flouts rules in Bt rice trials in Jharkhand mahyco seed company was found conducting field trials of Bt rice in Jharkhand, flouting all the rules and regulations prescribed for trials of a genetically modified crop. The trials were being conducted at Saparong village in Ranchi district of Jharkhand without …
Agriculture scientists are upbeat with a new aromatic rice variety, which they claim is cost effective and disease resistant and will help mitigate monga [seasonal joblessness] in the northern districts. Researchers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University in association with Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service, a leading non-government organisation, developed …
Mangalore, DHNS: NABARD Regional Training College in Mangalore will be organising a national seminar on 'Agri Produce Enrichment' on October 13 and 14. According to a press release, the seminar with the slogan
THE Netherlands, a small country in Europe with a population smaller than 16 million, is the second largest exporter of agricultural and horticultural produce in the world after the United States. A visit to some of the high-tech centres, greenhouses and dairy farms in the country was an eye-opener for …
Knowledge of spatial variation of soil properties is important in precision farming and environmental modelling. Spatial distribution of water content at field capacity (FC) and permanent wilting point (PWP) at different zones of a farm governs the available water for plant growth. These two soil hydraulic parameters play key roles …
Importance of maize as a food as well as fuel crop stressed Tuticorin: Training camps were conducted recently to inculcate the techniques of maize hybrid seed production among farm women in the villages Kalkumi, A.Kumarapuram of Vilathikulam block and Sankaralingapuram, Vembur of Pudhur block in Tuticorin district by the Agricultural …
LONDON Prince Charles, an avowed opponent of genetically modified crops, has said that genetically- modified farming techniques were responsible for suicides by small farmers in India. Delivering the Sir Albert Howard Memorial Lecture via video link to Dr Vandana Shiva
Surinder Sud / New Delhi October 07, 2008, 0:12 IST New farming technologies can help not only improve land productivity, but also reverse climate change. Faster agricultural growth in the past was largely the result of promoting higher use of water, fertilisers and other energy-intensive inputs and technologies. But now, …
This paper utilizes two different approaches to assess the impact of significantly scaling up investment in public agricultural research in developing countries in general, and in the CGIAR in particular. First, it models the potential impact of doubling research investment on agricultural (food) production and poverty reduction, and also on …
The world food crisis, rapidly defined by those in power as a problem of insufficient production, has become a trojan horse to get corporate seeds, fertilisers and, surreptitiously, market systems into poor countries. As past experience shows, what looks like
