Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
This study analysed genomic variation of the translation elongation factor 1α (TEF-1α) and the intergenic spacer region (IGS) of the nuclear ribosomal operon of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) isolates, from different banana production areas, representing strains within the known races, comprising 20 vegetative compatibility groups (VCG). Based on …
Experiments were conducted to determine the efficacy of various vermicomposts produced from agro- and distillation-waste of medicinal and aromatic crops on hatching of eggs of Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood and root-knot disease development in tomato.
Kakinada, March 2: Some farmers in East Godavari district who have raised black gram as an alternative crop in the rabi season, demanded that government immediately provide compensation packages to their crops, as nearly 40 per cent of the black gram crop was completely damaged due to a virus called …
Mold spoils some 10% of the world's annual harvests. And perhaps more significantly, many fungi produce mycotoxins, poisonous chemicals that can accumulate in human tissues. The most dangerous is aflatoxin, which is elevating rates of liver cancer and likely stunting childhood growth in Africa, Southeast Asia, and China. Mycologists are …
Antagoistic bacteria were isolated from soil samples collected from different forest areas of Jabalpur, Mandla, Umaria and Bilaspur. One antagonistic bacteria Bacillus firmus was isolated from the soil of Belkund teak forest nursery, Kundam Project, Forest Development Corporation, Jabalpur.
M.J. PRABU TANDIYA IS 30 km from Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh. Local farmers grow wheat, barley, gram, mustard, chilly, pea, brinjal during Rabi season and bajra, sorghum, paddy, tuwar, moth bean, green gram and groundnut during Kharif. It is also famous for its vegetable market. Like several others in the …
Areacunut growers are in distress owing to crownrat disease affecting arecanut in Bukkabudi, Nagabhoganahalli, Danayakapura and Amrithapura hobli. The district Youth Congress has decided to hold jatha of arecanut growers in Nagabhoganahalli on January 15, demanding compensation to the growers. Youth Congress President Sachin Meega said
The arecanut trees grown in more than 200 hectare land in Bukkambudi in the catchment area of Bukkarayanakere have been affected with Crownrat (thudikole roga) and have taken away the
S. Ganesan No cause for alarm, says Joint Director of Agriculture TIRUCHI: Most parts of Tiruchi district, including the city, continued to receive moderate rainfall on Thursday. Though rainfall has not affected standing crop in the district, incidence of diseases have been noticed in paddy crop in some parts of …
This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that spatial variations in soil microbial variables in a Thai rice paddy are accurately described by multivariate profiles of the soil bacterial communities. The authors found that community-level physiological profiles of soil bacterial communities could better describe the population density of Rhizoctonia …
COIMBATORE: Agricultural universities should focus on tackling diseases that affect crops and thereby the farm economy also, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said here on Tuesday. Inaugurating the Centenary Building of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) and other new buildings of agricultural institutions in various parts of the State, …
Fruit rot disease (kole roga) has worsened the condition of areca plantations in the region, thanks to the incessant rains lashing for the past one week. Farmers who are solely dependent on the crop, have been totally discouraged by the development. Even though the growers have sprayed bordeaux mix to …
VIEW FINDER NOT A USUAL EXERCISE Soldiers smell the ground to detect bodies of flash flood victims in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot battered the island"s southern region in the second week of August. The typhoon, which Met officials call the deadliest in 50 years, also triggered mudslides; one such mudslide …
DROUGHT conditions triggered a pest attack in 12 paddy growing districts of Orissa. The swarming caterpillars (Spodoptera mauritia) ruined crops on 89,000 hectares (ha) of the four million ha under paddy cultivation in the state. Sambalpur district was the worst affected; paddy crops on nearly 33,000 ha were destroyed by …
Chandigarh ConcretiSation in the city is having an adverse affect on trees. With a large number of trees increasingly being surrounded by concrete, the average life of a tree is reducing. On the basis of a report, the Administration has identified around 650 different sites in the city which have …
Union Minion of State for Agriculture K V Thomas had summoned the representatives of coffee growers to New Delhi to discuss the problems of growers recently. Interacting with the delegation, he said that Central Government wants to respond to their problems in an effective manner and even plans to find …
Farmers have demanded of the Punjab government to declare the district a calamity-hit area due to the heavy damages caused to the cotton crop by recent massive virus attack. In a meeting held at the grain market here on Wednesday, farmers and progressive landlords, including former MPA Syed Tabish Alwari, …
