Agriculture

Steps taken for proper supply of fertilizer

Industries Minister Dilip Barua on Thursday said the government ensured proper supply and distribution of fertiliser in the country.

Publication Date: 
08/05/2009
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Agriculture, Chemical Fertilisers, Economy, Farmers, Energy, Agro-Based Industry
Energy

Frequent power cuts: HSC examinees, farmers worst hit

No remarkable improvement of power situation is seen in the ongoing summer season that causes huge suffering for the HSC examinees and Boro farmers. Residents and boro farmers yesterday experienced ten to sixteen hours electricity cut, according to sources.

There was 1,800MW of load shedding yesterday against the demand of 5,500MW, sources said.

Publication Date: 
20/04/2009
Shamim Jahangir
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Agriculture, Farmers, Energy, Electricity, Education, Bangladesh, Dhaka
Agriculture

The food and farming transition: toward a post-carbon food system

The American food system rests on an unstable foundation of massive fossil fuel inputs. It must be reinvented in the face of declining fuel stocks. The new food system will use less energy, and the energy it uses will come from renewable sources. The seeds of the new food system have already been planted. America's farmers have been reducing their energy use for decades.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2009
Richard Heinberg, Michael Bomford
Post Carbon Institute
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Systems, Natural Fertilisers, Seeds, Bio Fuel Crops, Farmers, Energy, Fossil Fuels, United States Of America (US), Food Security
Energy

Green boost for Konkan plan

MUMBAI: In the backdrop of power shortage in the state, there is good news for the people of Maharashtra and Reliance Power as well. An appeal filed against the environmental and CRZ clearances given to the power company for its proposed 4,000 MW power project in Konkan has been dismissed by the National Environment Appellate Authority, paving way for the early development of the project.

Publication Date: 
13/03/2009
Times Of India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Forests, Land Acquisition, Farmers, Energy, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Maharashtra, Raigad
Agriculture

 News 360o - Briefs

china land reform Policy to double rural earnings China

Publication Date: 
29/11/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Oil Pollution, Land Reforms, Agriculture, Natural Disasters, Transport, Volcanic Eruptions, Mud, Urban Transport, Cycles, Farmers, Energy, Oil Exploration, Electricity, Power Transmission, Nigeria, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Korea
Agriculture

 Brief

land compensation Tikait arrested Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Mahendra Singh Tikait was arrested in Ghaziabad on August 18. He was on his way to lend support to a farmers

Publication Date: 
14/09/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Agriculture, Food Policy, Food Prices, Food Supply, Sugar Industry, Diesel, Farmers, Conflicts, Compensation, Energy, Exports, Venezuela, India, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, Reliance Petrochemicals, Fuel Pricing
Natural Disasters
National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
Agriculture, Weather Predictions, Natural Disasters, Farmers, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Uttar Pradesh, Noida
Agriculture
Department of Agriculture & Cooperation
Agricultural Research, Plant Breeding, Farmers, Ministry Of Agriculture
Animal Care
National Dairy Development Board
Animal Care, Dairy Development, Milk, Farmers, Cooperatives, Gujarat
Agriculture

Free power and water turning into tragedy

The excessive commercialisation of agriculture in Punjab is well known but just how much rent-seeking is going on and with what implications, is not so well known. The recent scheme of the PSEB called the

Publication Date: 
14/07/2008
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Tubewells, Farmers, Energy, State Electricity Board (SEB), Punjab

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