Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Whatever the Bt cotton experience for farmers in other parts of India, it seems that it has given their counterparts in Punjab a new lease of life. After being plagued by continuously declining productivity and escalating input costs for years, farmers had been going off cotton in a big way. …
a joint study by scientists from Africa and France shows mosquitoes (vector) are more attracted to people already infected with the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. This helps P falciparum orchestrate its own onward transmission from within the human body. It can manipulate the biting behaviour of the mosquito vector when …
bt cotton varieties grown in India are the least effective against bollworm, the most widespread cotton pest, as compared to those used elsewhere in the world, claims a study by the Central Institute for Cotton Research (cicr) in Nagpur. The finding appears to vindicate the stand of farmers, particularly from …
A severe locust invasion has destroyed large tracts of cotton and grain crops in Uzbekistan's Kashkadarya province. All attempts by farmers and Uzbek authorities to contain the crisis have proved futile. Insecticides are being sprayed on farmlands from planes and farms are provided with the facility to use a special …
a team of scientists from Nagpur-based Central Institute for Cotton Research (cicr) has developed a kit to help choose the right insecticide to control the American bollworm (Helicovarpa armigera). Resistant to most pesticides, the bug poses a big challenge to cotton cultivators not only in India but worldwide. The pest's …
scientists at the Indian Institute of Spices Research (iisr) in Kozhikode have found how bacterial wilt attacks ginger (Zingiber officinale), an important cash crop. Caused by a family of pathogens called Ralstonia solanacearum, the disease spreads quickly and can cause total crop loss. It is one of the major causes …
A researcher from Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics has identified the virus that causes the sterility mosaic disease in pigeonpea (commonly known as tur dal). The finding is significant, as the disease leads to an annual loss of US $300 million in India and Nepal, which account …
A field experiment conducted at the College of Agriculture, CSKHPKV, Palampur, H.P. during 1999-2000 revealed that the synthetic pyrethroid treatments viz., deltamethrin, cypermethrin and fenvalerate gave significantly less fruit infestation of cucurbit fruit fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae Coq. upto 14 days of spray on summer squash compared to malathion.
Studies were conducted on the occurence of metabolic mediated resistance in cotton aphid, Aphis gossypil to selected insecticides viz., endosulfan, monocrotophos, dimethoate, phosphamidon, carbaryl and cypermethrin using synergist TPP suppressible metabolic resistance even at 1:5 ratio in respect of monocrotophos and cypermethrin.
The samples of okra and brinjal fruit and soil collected from non-IPM and IPM fields were analyzed for insecticides viz chlorpyriphos, cypermethrin and monocrotophos, widely used in these crops in adopted village Raispur, in Ghaziabad District (UP).
Newly developed Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay (ELISA) technique has been used for monitoring of wheat grain and flour samples for endosulfan residues. Data indicated that eight samples out of fifteen contained endosulfan residues. The average concentation varied from 0.65-6.1 ppm. ELISA data correlated well with GC analysis with correlation …
Jasvir Singh Banth, 32, sits surrounded by colourful containers labelled Army, Fighter, Super Fighter, Lethal, Malamaal, Spark, Axe, Arjun, or Rogorin. A small red triangle on the label signifies what the cans contain: poison. Banth's pesticide shop is the only one in a 7-8 kilometre radius. He started in 1995. …
This is the kind of crisis African nightmares are made of. Nine countries in the region between the Sahara Desert and the more fertile lands towards the south are reeling under an attack by millions of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria), which devour vegetables, grains and clothing. The infestation would spread …
The grasslands in China are fast depleting and the food habits of the country's insect population are to blame. Nearly 75,000 hectares of grasslands in five counties and cities have been attacked by swarms of locusts, caterpillars and bugs. According to Wang Wei, an official with the local livestock and …
current methods of assessing short-term intake of pesticide residues by humans need to be modified. So concludes a study conducted by an international team of researchers. Their assertion is significant, as single exposure to some pesticide residues can be unsafe. A single high dose of organophosphates, for instance, can lead …
many farmers across the world will now stop going bananas. Researchers have developed a method to quickly assess the susceptibility of the banana plants to Panama disease
At Padpu, Padre village, Kasargod district, Kerala, there is a ritual every November to honour the snake god. Many in the area also believe that the ritual celebrates the origin of the Kodenkeri thodu (stream) in a patch of sacred forests near Padre, right beneath the cashew plantation-rich hills of …
