Saligao was a typical scenic Goan village, but garbage dumped illegally is gradually plaguing its wards creating a stink and posing health hazards to residents. Residents of Piquen Morod, Saligao and surrounding areas have been forced to face garbage stink due to illegal waste dumping activities at Saligao.

Bangalore Karnataka government has chalked out plans to provide irrigation facility for two lakh acre this year in all river basin areas in a bid to increase agricultural output in the state.

The plan is to divert the excess water from the rivers for irrigation.

Though India is one of the largest producers of the food in the world, nearly three hundred million people struggle for meeting two square meals a day and 21 percent of the national population are malnourished. This indicates the issues of accessibility to adequate and nutritive food to the poor.

Namakkal: General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) K.

Agriculture Minister K.A.

The International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics has released 735 highly-nutritious and drought-tolerant crop varieties developed using germplasm and breeding materials in 78 countries, including Andhra Pradesh in India, significantly contributing to increased income and better nutrition of resource-poor people in the dry land tropics.

In Anantapur, where over 50 per cent of farm

Move to phase out hazardous ones. KAU has released a package on

VELLORE: The Organic Farming Organisation, Vellore, has appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to ban the use of endosulfan, a harmful pesticide, in Tamil Nadu.

In a memorandum to the Chief Minister, president of the organisation G.S. Purushothaman said the pesticide had been banned in more than 80 countries and in India by Karnataka and Kerala.

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PANJIM, Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) is charting out a plan to increase the domestic production of rice from four tons per ha to six tons per hectare through high yielding varieties.
Chairman of the Research Advisory Committee, ICAR Goa, Kirti Singh said that the current production of rice is not enough to meet the demands of the state population.