Agriculture is an area where new technologies are often applied to improve the yield of crops. Nano agriculture involves the involvement of nanoparticles in agriculture with the ambition that these particles will impart some beneficial effect to the crops.

India has about 55.27 million hectares (m ha) of wasteland. These are not suitable for any purpose and are exposed to the vagaries of nature like weathering, gully erosion, etc. The Department of Land Resources of the Ministry of Rural Development has been implementing three area development programmes since 1995, viz.

What is technology transfer and what does it need to succeed? Various factors concerning the scientist, the academic institution, a fresh entrepreneur or an existing company, government policies and the environment contribute to greater efficiency in transferring technologies from academia to industry. These factors are discussed here with reference to the situation in the US and India.

The issue of recognizing and acknowledging the value of traditional know-

Arunachal Pradesh, an abode of biodiversity and one among the 200 globally
important ecoregions in the world, is fortunately situated in the north-eastern part of India. With the Eastern Himalaya extending into its western part, the state harbours an elegant range of endangered

Schizostachyum dullooa (Gamble) Majumder (dolu bamboo) is a thin-walled
sympodial moderate size to large tufted bamboo. The species is distributed in the moist semi-evergreen forests of northeast India (Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram) to Sylhet, Chittagong

We still do not know 60-70% of the living insect species in India and almost all of these yet unnamed species probably occur only in our Protected Areas now. 'No permits to survey in' or 'unrestricted access to these areas given to qualified specialist scientists' means no knowledge about three quarters of our subcontinent's biota.

A comprehensive inventory of the invasive alien flora of India's fifth largest and most populous state, Uttar Pradesh was done.

The seasonal variability of phytoplankton biomass in the Arabian Sea, though a well researched topic, its inter-annual variability is less explored and understood. Analysis of the satellite-derived chlorophyll pigment concentration in the Arabian Sea during 1997

Brick kiln sites in an Indian dry tropical peri-urban region, differing in the period of exposure to industrial activity and distance from the brick baking centre, were investigated seasonally for their impact on