Agriculture

  Double effect

researchers in France have found

Publication Date: 
29/09/1997
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Bees, France
Agriculture

 Doing away fertilisers

researchers in Germany have dis

Publication Date: 
14/09/1997
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Agriculture, Germany
Environment

 A revolution redefined

Troubled by the degradation of soil and water, French farmers are now switching to a more sustainable practise of agriculture

Publication Date: 
30/08/1997
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Environment, Chemical Fertilisers, Water Management, France, Agriculture
Agriculture

 Floating fields

Rural folk can grow rice on lakes in Manipur

Publication Date: 
30/08/1997
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Agriculture, Rice, Manipur
India

 Thinking afresh

Agriculturists in India are gradually moving away from chemical pesticides and fertilisers;

Publication Date: 
14/07/1997
Tirtho Banerjee
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Agriculture, Organic Farming, Pest Control, Pesticide Residues, India
Climate Change

 SRI LANKA

Farmers in Sri Lanka are up in arms against low-priced agricultural imports from India that have flooded the country's markets. After prolonged protest campaigns against the duty-free potato

Publication Date: 
14/07/1997
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Agriculture, Sri Lanka
India

 Home truhs, colonial lies

A noted Gandhian historian, DHARAMPAL has enquired into variousfacets of M British Indian society. He has authored several books, including Indian Science and Technology in the 18th century and The Beautiful Tree. In a conversation with MAX MARTIN in

Publication Date: 
29/06/1997
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Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge, History, India
Agriculture

 Lessons of a drought

Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of the day and a global water crisis seems not too far away. But the water-guzzling US state of California is show

Publication Date: 
29/06/1997
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Agriculture, Water Management, Irrigation, United States Of America (US)
Agriculture

 Mite to the rescue

A NEW predatory mite has proved to be a boon for Africa's cassava (a root crop) fields. Recently, scientists from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in lbadan, Nigeria,

Publication Date: 
29/06/1997
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Agriculture, Food Crops, Africa
Agriculture

 Lifeline

Without water, cities in California have fared disastrously

Publication Date: 
29/06/1997
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Agriculture, Water Management, Irrigation, United States Of America (US)

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