Global map of salt-affected soils
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched the Global Map of Salt-Affected Soils, a key tool for halting salinization and boosting productivity. The map estimates that there are more than 833
Soil Salinisation
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125 farm experts end deliberations
Karnal: The role of poor quality soils and water resources in enhancing the food production was highlighted in a three-day seminar,
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Global warming victims not heard in Copenhagen
Ratan Mondol, 86, is one of the first environmental refugees from the Sunderbans. Old and bent, Mondal recalls how the rising sea destroyed his life.
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Burdened by Soviet legacy, nations spar over water rights
As scientists worry about the prospect of a catastrophic flood from Lake Sarez in the Pamir Mountains, agricultural communities on the plains below face a very different problem. This arid region in Central Asia has inherited a set of resource blunders made decades ago by the Soviet Union. And since the Soviet collapse in the 1990s, competition for fresh water has increased.
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From paddy to fish: Punjab cultivates carps, looks at prawns
Shajarana village, located some 15 km from Fazilka, is slowly discovering the benefits of aquaculture. Badly affected by soil salinity and waterlogging, agriculture here means a single crop in a year and that too only in soil having low salt deposits.
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Mapping of soil degradation hazards by remote sensing in Hanumangarh District (Western Rajasthan)
In the present study, efforts have been made to identify and map areas affected by various soil degradation processes in Hanumangarh district of western Rajasthan. Soil degradation processes were identified by using IRS-1B satellite image of the year 1998, SOI topsheets, ground truth verification and soil studies.
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Desertification/land degradation status mapping of India
Desertification is the process of land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry-subhumid areas. This communication describes the classification system, methodology and the results of desertification and land degradation status mapping carried out for the entire country on 1 : 500,000 scale using multi-temporal Resourcesat AWiFS data.
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Climate change threat to every sector in Bangladesh
The ongoing global climate change (CC) has already caused a grave concern to the country's agriculture, irrigation, navigation, ecology, bio-diversity, weather, environment and underground water levels, concerned experts said.
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Water shortage greatest threat to Pakistan: book
Water shortages present the greatest future threat to the viability of Pakistan as a state and a society, warns a new book on Pakistan. Author Michael Kugelman argues that
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Shelat Committee report for proposed cement project of M/S. Nirma Ltd., at Mahuva
<p>Shelat Committee report for proposed cement project of M/S. Nirma Ltd., at Mahuva.</p>
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Pitiful plunder
The social, environmental and economic destruction that results from the plunder of land in Bangladesh by the shrimp industry is pitiful.