Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Executive Officer, Nagar Panchayat Parishad, Farid Nagar Vs Paryavaran Mitra & Others dated 17/03/2025. The SC directed Executive Officer, Nagar Panchayat Parishad, Faridnagar, Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh to engage the services of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) for advising …
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: Guruvayur Anakotta which houses more than 60 elephants has to deal with nine tonnes of elephant dung every day. It is with the help of a contractor that the authorities dispose off the dung by using it for land-filling or some other purpose. But with the rising …
Siddayya Hiremath, Gadag, Apr 11, DHNS: Sheep penning is a time-tested practice in dry land farming, with flocks of sheep being herded in farms to enrich soil with the sheep droppings and urine. But the farm of Ramappa Sakroji outside Naregal near here presents an unusual picture. Hundreds of cattle, …
Agriculture scientist Preeti Joshi has the recipe for the perfect compost and has been promoting it in Wardha district of Maharashtra for 20 years. She tells Aparna Pallavi why farmers fail to use it despite their eagerness to do so. Excerpts:On factors that dissuade farmers Farmers are becoming aware of …
Every morning and evening, millions of women in India spend an hour or two cooking their rice, dal, curry, and roti or other flat bread. Most will prepare their meals over a smoky, 3-stone open fire or a traditional clay or brick cook stove called a chulha. The stoves burn …
Sheep are the gift to dryland farmers by nature which can yield returns within 1.5 years of investment, says Veerakempanna. Veerakempanna of Anoor village in Chikkabalapur district, like any other dryland farmer in Karnataka, unable to meet the ends with dryland farming alone, was supplementing his income by rearing some …
In a first of its kind initiative, the Municipal Corporation of Ghaziabad plans to tackle the problem of cattle dung choking the city drainage system by sending its vehicles for door-to-door collection of the waste. The waste will then be used to generate biogas under the cowdung waste management plan, …
China is the world's largest user of synthetic fertilizer, consuming 36% of the global total. As a result, China's farmers have exceeded soil needs, causing nitrates to accumulate and create serious pollution problems. And the hunger for nitrogen has added to China's energy and greenhouse gas emissions: In the atmosphere, …
During the day, Amanjeet Gill is a diplomat, tall, urbane and well travelled. But on weekends, 41-year-old Gill becomes a farmer. He is the driving force behind a non-profit called the Farmer
It was an evening in August. A group of men on a boat were packing dried dung cakes and hay into an earthen silo tied to the hull in Darbhanga district. Slowly, a body was pushed between the dung cakes. Oil was sprinkled on top. Smoke curled out as the …
An experiment was conducted during 2005-06 and 2006-07 in the Division of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Khalsa College, Amritsar to study the effect of combined used of farmyard manure and poultry manure with 75, 100 and 125 per cent NPK on productivity, nutrient uptake and profitability of autumn potato.
Munia Devi and her son Bholua look forward to the world-famous cattle fair that takes place here every year. They can't afford to buy any animal, but they make a neat packet selling elephant dung. Elephant dung is known as the poor man's mosquito repellant. When burnt, it gives out …
The pilot study of user experience with traditional and improved cookstoves based on research in five Indian states. Provides an understanding of traditional cooking practices,looks at some of the improved cook stoves currently in the market & assesses user experience surrounding use of these improved cookstoves. Traditional cookstoves are used …
A survey has been carried out in a cluster of four villages in Amaniganj Block of Faizabad District of Eastern Uttar Pradesh in India. The survey is based on primary and secondary data collected from household and village level questionnaires. The present energy consumption in cooking, lighting, other domestic activities, …
Scientists claim to have found a new way of converting pig poo into green power. A large amount of pig manure created by thousands of pigs in giant hog farms can pollute rivers, poison groundwater and pump out clouds of methane and carbon dioxide. So, finding alternative uses for the …
Mumbai Cowdung and kitchen wastes will turn into cooking gas everyday at the Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Hospital, which has installed a biogas plant on its Lower Parel premises. The organic conversion will involve no extra energy or electricity. What
Chromolaena odorata (Eupatorium odoratum), commonly known as Eupatorium, is an introduced weed which became a menace in plantations, forests, marginal lands and open areas in the Western Ghats region of Karnataka. The weed calls for effective control by applying suitable methods. Keeping this in view, an experiment was conducted to …
