Agriculture

 Nature's guerrilla tactics

Integrated pest management (IPM) is a method of reducing the use of pesticides by farmers by promoting alternative pest control practices such as the use of resistant rice varieties, dependence on

Publication Date: 
29/11/1994
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Agriculture, Pesticides, Rice, Asia
Agriculture

 Pitting nature against pests

A Filipino farmes uses the unstinting goodness of nature to contain pests

Publication Date: 
29/11/1994
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Agriculture, Pesticides, Rice, Asia
Agriculture

 Drought down under

Australia is in the grip of a severe drought. Recently, food production has decreased sharply, prices have soared and there has been water shortages and Flowering in concrete jungles bush fires in

Publication Date: 
29/11/1994
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Agriculture, Drought, Australia
India

 Sweet death

Red rot, a fatal fungus eating into the sugarcane crop in western Uttar Pradesh, has left India drastically short on sugar. BIJOY BASANT PATRO finds a countryside caned to death

Publication Date: 
30/10/1994
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Agriculture, Crop Pests, Sugarcane, India
India

 How the rot sets in

The first documented report on red rot (Colletotrichum falcaturn) dates back to 1901. However, some researchers daim that it was prevalent in the Indian subcontinent centuries ago and was referred

Publication Date: 
30/10/1994
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Agriculture, Crop Pests, Sugarcane, India
Agriculture

 Project without a people

SOON after the euphoria of the Green Revolution in India subsided, it became clear that the high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of rice and wheat were not the answer to the problem of foodgrain scarcity.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1994
Seema Kalra
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Agriculture, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh
India

 Soil scan

Soil testing can help farmers decide on the right mix of fertilisers and maximise benefits

Publication Date: 
29/09/1994
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Agriculture, Soil Science, India
India

 To get in touch...

National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSSLUP) Amravati Road Nagpur 440 010 NBSS & LUP D K Block Sector 11 Bidhan Nagar Calcutta 700 091 NBSS & LUP Library

Publication Date: 
29/09/1994
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Agriculture, Soil Science, India
India

 New use for fly ash

West Bengal's department of environment and forests has decided to use fly ash generated by thermal power plants and industrial boilers using coal as soil conditioners, and convert old ash ponds into

Publication Date: 
29/09/1994
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Agriculture, India, Fly Ash
Agriculture

 Toiling unsung

Rural women manage the family and the field, yet most development programmes target just the male farmer

Publication Date: 
14/09/1994
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Agriculture, Development, Women, Developing Countries

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