Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Jind: The Agriculture Department is all set to go hi-tech with the introduction of the latest ground penetrating radar (GPR) system to test the quality of soil of cultivable and non-cultivable land. The department has pressed into service at least three vans to collect data regarding the soil to prepare …
THRISSUR: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has urged the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) scientists to formulate a naturefriendly package of practices to stimulate organic enrichment of soil. Addressing a conclave of the scientists from KAU, Central Plantation Crops Research Institute(CPCRI), Spices Research Centre, and Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council Keralam (VFPCK), …
SOIL constantly undergoes changes—be it by growing crops, adding fertilizer, erosion or contamination. Scientists analyse as many as 50 properties of soil—including sand and organic carbon content, porosity and essential nutrients like nitrogen and iron—to monitor its health and predict if the land is on the verge of degradation by …
Gujarat is a role model for the rest of the country with respect to certification of agricultural land, with more than 70% of the state's farmers provided cards with information on the quality of their soil, a senior agriculture ministry officer said on Monday.
Farmer Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria said that we should adopt bio-farming for improving fertility of soil. He said that bio-farming is a revolution. We have to analyze the old and investigate about the new knowledge and squeeze the goodness from both old and new. While expressing …
In their report (Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: Global distribution and covariation with climate," 13 August, p. 834), C. Beer et al. joined others in estimating global carbon fluxes and their relationship to climate. (Letters)
Farmer Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria said that we should adopt bio-farming for improving fertility of soil. He said that bio-farming is a revolution. We have to analyze the old and investigate about the new knowledge and squeeze the goodness from both old and new. While expressing …
The new nutrient-based fertiliser subsidy policy provides implicit incentives to farmers to test soil samples regularly and get crop-wise recommended doses of nutrients, and offers prospective benefits from the agro-environmental management point of view. A study of six villages in the lower Bhavani Basin in Tamil Nadu reveals that despite …
Minerals are the gift of nature which occurs either in thick forest areas or adjacent to it. During the course of mining, vegetation/forest gets destroyed and gets replaced by huge quantities of overburden dumps. Restoration of these dumps becomes necessary so that the land may come back to its original …
Agricultural application of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), as nutrient source for plants and as soil conditioner, is the most costeffective option of MSW management because of its advantages over traditional means such as landfilling or incineration. However, agricultural application of MSW can lead to a potential environmental threat due to …
A field experiment was conducted on loamy soil with pH 8.10 and Ec 0.42 during 2007-2008 at the demonstration/research farm of Punjab Agricultural University to study the effect of irrigation regimes on leaf area and changes in soil nutrients in the plantation of Eucalyptus clones.
Human excreta could have a key role in securing future food security, helping prevent a sharp drop in yields of crops such as wheat due to a shortage of phosphorus inputs, a UK organic body said on Monday. "It is estimated that only 10 percent of the three million metric …
Climate change has resulted in several kinds of aberrations in the weather phenomenon all over the globe. The recent unprecedented rainfall leading to floods in 13 districts of North Karnataka was said to be one such event. Very high rainfall received over a short period of time in a region …
Sequestration of atmospheric carbon to the soil is a challenging task for the scientific community to mitigate the rising concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Biochar, due to its aromatic structure and long mean residence time in the soil (more than 100 years) has the potential for long-term carbon sequestration …
The dehydrogenase activity (DHA) has been proposed as a measure of overall microbial activity and used as index of the soil microbial biomass. DHA is measured by two methods using TTC and INT as substrate, however, various authors reported poor results when TTC is used as substrate.
Soil fertility status of hilly microwater watershed in Shivalik hills, was assessed in relation to three locality factors, viz. altitude, slope and aspect. It was found that at higher altitude (440-450 m) of watershed, the soil fertility parameters were less and more in lower altitude (420-430m).
A field experiment was conducted on rice seed production in rice-wheat cropping system to find out the effect of application of biofertilizers and urea on the grain yield and quality attributes of rice varieties at the research farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India during 2 wet seasons …
Based on the traditional wisdom of the tree based farming systems followed since ages across the world, scientific community intervened to harness full benefits of agroforestry land use system and address global issues of land degradation and agricultural sustainability.
Agriculture sector contributes a major portion in gross production of India. In spite of this, agriculture today is finding itself in increasing difficulties. The adverse impact of agriculture based on synthetic fertilizers and herbicides is visible in the degradation of soil fertility, quality of food, taste of food and so …
