First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Cooking a love story
Rice in Indonesian folklore has the status of the love hate relationship of a couple
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Questioning the system
On the outskirts of Jaipur is the 5-year-old, 30-acre Anokhi Farms, perhaps the largest in Rajasthan utilising Israeli drip irrigation technology. Owner John Singh, a garment exporter, was impressed
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Measuring the muck
A new method has been adopted to measure water pollution
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The numbers game
Can the cold logic of statistics ever breathe life into yardsticks for deciding whether a nation has done good or bad by its people?
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Lifted into prosperity
Community lift irrigation management systems have ushered in a new era in Shankerpura
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Forests of fortune
By allowing industrial plantations on forest land, the ministry of environment and forests has become profiteering industry's captive
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Captive plantations
* User agencies (read industries) will have the right to take up plantation on forest land and to get a stipulated proportion of the produce. br> * Funds for plantation will come from the user
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Revolutionary potatoes
Recently developed hybrid true potato seeds are ideally suited to subtropical climates and are highly disease resistant
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The vagaries of power
Differential metering of peak and low load consumption might jolt the power sector out of the red
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High fever
The setting up of a high-powered Himalayan Development Authority has run into rough weather. A committee headed by Planning Commission member S Z Qasim, set up in March 1992 to address the problems