They will be given interest-free loans

Locals want the stock to be shipped away

The State Horticultural Mission will implement various schemes worth Rs.77 crore during the current financial year for producing and distributing planting materials, expanding organic cultivation a

The Western Ghats region in the country, a global biodiversity hotspot, has opened up more of its secrets — this time a dozen species of night frogs hitherto unknown to science.

S.D. Biju of the University of Delhi and researchers from Bombay Natural History Society, Zoological Survey of India and Vrije University in Brussels, published the new finds in the latest issue of the international journal of zoological taxonomy ‘Zootaxa’.

The survey is required to prepare a report on decommissioning the dam and submit it to the Empowered Committee appointed by the Supreme Court on the dam.
The team reached Kumily on Wednesday morning with equipment to survey the baby dam and the spillway area. But the department said its permission had not been sought and hence the survey could not be conducted.

Project to be implemented with Central aid

The State government will introduce a comprehensive municipal waste management programme that will cover the entire State, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said.

Minister for Water Resources P.J. Joseph has said that a final picture on the demolition of the Mullaperiyar dam will be evolved at the meeting of the experts and engineers on September 17.

To meet needs of water-starved areas
Kerala should focus on small and medium irrigation projects to meet its needs, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said.
Big projects faced various problems like finance, and land acquisition, he said after inaugurating the second phase of the Kollengode Block Watershed Development Programme at the Kollengode block panchayat hall near here on Tuesday.

The Anti-Endosulfan Campaign Committee, on Monday, launched its “third phase of agitation” to enforce blanket ban on the pesticide in the country.
In a function at Bovikkanam, Malayalam film actor Suresh Gopi declared formally launched the new phase of agitation.
Addressing the gathering, the actor said the country had of late initiated policies hostile to society and to the Earth. “Such evils should be nipped in the bud through active involvement of people,” he said.

Agency to seek detailed project report on proposed plant

The Kerala State Pollution Control Board is likely to recommend that the Kochi Corporation need not set up a mega compost production plant at Brahmapuram. This is following an inference that the total volume of biodegradable waste generated in the city would not exceed 150 tonnes a day.