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 …
Mumbai: Even before the city gets its metro, a controversy has already arisen over the second route of metro. Residents of H (west) ward have objected to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) starting digging work for soil testing from Bandra junction to Santa Cruz (West) for Metro-II. The …
Addition of carbon to the soil promotes microbial immobilization of plant-available nutrients, and is being considered as a method to counter alien plant invasions, particularly in disturbed habitats. In the present study the response of three confamilial alien invasive species, Anthemis cotula, Conyza canadensis, and Galinsoga parviflora, to independent and …
Nearly one sixth of the global population is malnourished. The problem is particularly acute in tropical Africa, where constant or recurrent food shortages affect over 30% of the population
DC directs PPCB to investigate matter Awakening to the grave issue of dumping of highly toxic industrial ash in the rural belt as highlighted in The Tribune columns, Deputy Commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu today held meeting with Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) authorities and directed to investigate the problem. It …
SOILS, too, must endure acidity. Each plant and soil life form has a particular soil pH it is used to. Any change can lead to complications in the organism’s metabolism. For example, decrease in pH modifies the top soils—a major source of crop nutrients. J H Guo from the China …
Indore’s soil is malnourished Vital nutrients missing: study liberal doses of synthetic fertilizers may increase farm productivity for sometime but they are bad for the soil’s health. Studies conducted in the four tehsils of Indore district in Madhya Pradesh revealed injudicious use of fertilizer is causing nutrition deficiency in the …
ERODE: The discharge of water into the Kalingarayan canal, a major irrigation channel in the district, has been stopped recently to give way for carrying out renovation and maintenance works. But the flow of effluents in the channel is yet to stop. A large number of dyeing units continue to …
Schoolteachers, politicians and officials of the district administration today joined hands to chalk out measures to protect the environment. The occasion was a daylong workshop organised by the forest department here at the auditorium of CIMFR. More than 1,000 teachers of government schools attended the workshop that also saw participation …
But Says All Preventive Steps Have Been Taken And Radiation Levels Are Receding The Mayapuri radiation scare refuses to die down. Even as experts from BARC claimed that no
APPROXIMATELY 6.73 million hectares of India’s agricultural land is affected by varying degrees of soil salinity. About 130 million hectares are under agriculture. “Estimates indicate that by 2025 the country may have an area of about 13 million hectares under salt-affected soils,” said Suresh K Chaudhari, a scientist in the …
Siddayya Hiremath, Gadag, Apr 11, DHNS: Sheep penning is a time-tested practice in dry land farming, with flocks of sheep being herded in farms to enrich soil with the sheep droppings and urine. But the farm of Ramappa Sakroji outside Naregal near here presents an unusual picture. Hundreds of cattle, …
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is considered as one of the most essential vegetable crops for human nutrition. The deficiency of plant nutrients causes different changes in the physiological and biochemical processes within the plant cell resulting in a reduction of growth, delay of development and qualitative and quantitative decrease of yield, …
Rapid urbanisation in developing countries intensifies the challenges of making sufficient food available for the increasing urban population, and managing the related waste flow. Unlike in rural communities, there is usually little or no return of food biomass and related nutrients into the food production process. Most waste ends up …
Chandigarh: Punjab has been unable to make its revenue receipts keep pace with growing revenue expenditure due to its mounting debt burden. As a result, key areas like agriculture and the secondary sector are at standstill leading to a rise in fiscal deficit. The overall economy of the state has, …
Project to be implemented at an outlay of Rs. 25 lakh A fee of Rs. 10 will be collected from the farmer Tirupur: To increase the productivity of agriculture crops multifold, the Department of Agriculture plans to introduce a mobile soil and water testing laboratory in the district shortly. Joint …
BT, or soil bacteria bacillus thuringiensis, may have been involved in controversy of late over its use in the genetic modification of brinjal, but the bacteria-produced toxin could help battle roundworm infection worldwide, an article published recently in Nature magazine says. Intestinal roundworms, including hookworms and whipworms, infect well over …
Customs officials have seized about 500 tonnes of hazardous waste, which arrived at Tuticorin port in Tamil Nadu from Greece and Reunion Island, a territory controlled by Greece and France. The hazardous waste in 20 containers was to be received in the name of a paper factory in Sivakasi in …
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the prescribed stipulations to avoid contamination of soil and traditional crops were adequate and there was no proposal to ban field trial of genetically modified crops. "There is no proposal to ban the field trials and research of GM crops in the country as …
A SILENT revolution is sprouting out of Andhra soil. Just like the free distribution of colour television sets by the Tamil Nadu government, the Andhra Pradesh government is distributing portable soil testing kit that helps ascertain the fertility of the soil. Dr S Riazuddin Ahmed, retired principal scientist of Acharya …
Based on established linkages between ferrimagnetism and heavy metal concentration of anthropogenic particulates, we attempt here to delineate pollutant residing domains and study the role of surface runoff and wind circulations over its redistribution in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) in Maharashtra.
