ENDOSULFAN: A PROFILE
An organochlorine insecticide. Effective against a wide range of pests of crops including cereals, coffee, cotton, fruit, oilseeds, potato, tea and vegetables. Highly toxic substance . The US
An organochlorine insecticide. Effective against a wide range of pests of crops including cereals, coffee, cotton, fruit, oilseeds, potato, tea and vegetables. Highly toxic substance . The US
Paan is the delicacy among all communities in India. Its cultivation and propagation will serve to strengthen not just the various rituals associated with this leaf but also the families involved in its farming.
Harmless pesticides can be prepared for home gardens from -recipes compiled by the International Institute ofRural Reconstruction in the Philippines: Tobacco: Place tobacco leaves, stems and
Is the individual s attempt at environmental awareness limited mostly to sermonising about big issues?
Gross National Product may be an inadequate measure of economic activity when environmental damage occurs
The fairer sex has not benefitted as much as men from socio economic progress
Indian companies are learning how to fight the civil society from their Western counterparts
The world is getting fatter, sicker
Opium and its derivatives hold almost complete sway over the lives of most of the youth of Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district, where the Union government's opium factory is also located.
Farmers of the world are under attack. A new technology threatens to make them totally dependent on multinational corporations
Parisians see red and intercept a consignment of Indian roses meant to reach French women on Valentines day, turning it into a thorny issue
There has recently been a flurry of international activity centred around the versatile neem.
Zap! And another pollutant bites the dust
US President Bill Clinton has proposed an ambitious and complex programme to lower federal expenditure on health care and revamp the existing system.
Farmers of the future won't have to worry about pests, crop disease and herbicides.
Transferred genes light up the prospects of keeping agricultural trouble makers in control
Scientists are thrilled by the discovery that fungal enzymes called chitinases are environment friendly fungicides.
sole authority: The Madras High Court (HC) has vested the Tamil Nadu government with the exclusive right to carry out sand quarrying activities. In doing so, the HC has upheld a government order (GO)
Evidence indicts excess of iron in the body as reason for coronary diseases and the growth of latent cancers
In every sphere of human endeavour, the use of biological indicators provides an elegant device, as they do not disrupt the stability of natural ecosystems