Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) method uses seedlings and drip irrigation which has brought down the requirement of water considerably and by resorting to machinery for various operations, the total expenditure on labour could be reduced by half. The thumb rule is that the water required for irrigation of sugarcane in an acre under the conventional method [...]
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The monsoon has failed badly this year as it did in 1965. But it’s little more than an inconvenience this year, whereas in 1965 it was a monstrous calamity. The drought-proofing of India is a success story, but one widely misunderstood. India in the 1960s was pathetically dependent on US food aid. Even in [...]
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Srini mega food park at Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh is the first mega food park in the country. As a model ‘Mega Food Park’ and the first of its kind in India, Srini provides state-of-the-art food processing infrastructure designed as per global standards and develops a veritable market place with common facilities on the lines of a software park [...]
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Indian farmers can get their agriculture and weather-related queries answered quickly. The Indian government is planning to launch a spoken web service that will provide an interactive medium for the farming community. For that The Earth Science Ministry has approached IT Giant IBM. In a country where close to 60 percent of the 1.21 billion [...]
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The technical team members Mr.C D Thatte and D K Mehta had visited the controversial dam last month, will submit their report to the Supreme Court today. The Kerala may complain that the technical team did not hear the kerala’s views on the dam’s safety. The Dam located in Kerala and controlled by Tamil nadu. The dam [...]
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Qazinag National Park is a commissioned national park in the Baramulla district in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is part of a proposal for a trans-Karakoram Peace park with Pakistan. Following the ceasefire after Kargil War, and based on mounting pressure to conserve the rare Markhor wild goat, the Government of India, based [...]
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Forests cover 31% of total land area in the world Forests are home to 80% of terrestrial biodiversity Forests provide a home to more than 300 million people worldwide Forests contribute livelihoods to 1.6 billion people Forests products account for an estimated of $330 billion of global trade More [...]
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According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) the emission of Energy-related carbon has reached a record level over last year. The energy watchdog says emissions rose again after a dip caused by the financial crisis in 2009, and ended 5% up from the previous record in 2008. China and India account for most of the [...]
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Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh granted final approval to Orissa for diversion of 1,253 hectares of forest land for Posco’s steel project but said the South Korean steel major should not export raw material from the proposed project. " In view of the state government’s latest communication of 29th April, final approval is accorded to the [...]
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Having been described over the years as the best-laid natural garden in Asia and a “Botanist’s Paradise”, the over 150-year-old Government Botanical Garden (GBG) here is now in the process of getting its natural beauty enhanced artificially. In keeping with a beautification plan drawn up by the Department of Horticulture and Plantation Crops under its [...]
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The science plan of the Black Carbon Research Initiative National carbonaceous Aerosols Programme (NCAP) under the aegis of the Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment, INCCA will be launched on March 28. Based on the substantial groundwork which had been done led to identification of the science questions for the research invitations were finalized through [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Even as Asia continued to be the favourite destination for investors parking money in clean energy projects rising sharply by 33 per cent, India continued its rise as top destination ranking 10th among the G-20 countries and China emerging on the top. Private investments in clean energy in Asia touched $82.8 billion. [...]
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The Las Vegas Strip to go dark The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), organizers of the fifth annual Earth Hour, is asking people all over the world to turn off lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time in support of energy conservation and awareness of climate change. In 2010, 128 countries, 4,000 cities [...]
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The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) announced the formation of ICRISAT South-South Initiative (IS-SI) to boost India-Africa partnership on agriculture research aimed at tackling poverty in dry lands. Addressing participants of the Indo-Africa roundtable on 24th March on agriculture for development in New Delhi explained that IS-SI will provide the platform [...]
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Picture: A Rare Frog. Perhaps for the first time in the country, researchers of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment have initiated a project to monitor the presence of frogs and toads in the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats to preserve these endangered species serving as indicators of climate change. The [...]
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