KARUR: Farmers must consider means of value addition for their produce to make agriculture a more viable venture. Bamboo cultivation is one such endeavour that could be gainfully carried on by the farming community in suitable places, according to District Collector J. Uma Maheswari.

LOOTING of the reserve forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts has reached alarming proportions. The way the illegal loggers in collusion with some dishonest forest officials are depleting the forest resources of Rangamati has again become glaringly evident from a recent report in this paper.

Coimbatore, Aug. 30 The Hosur-based Growmore Biotech has developed a bamboo variety called Beema that is rich in biomass yields.

The high-yielding clone is thorn-less, thick-walled, non-flowering and responsive to field management practice.

THE term "sustainable development" seems to have reached a stage of sustainability after having been used for long. Sustainability is a word most suited, perhaps, for describing an ecosystem constituted of biota like plants, animals and microbes living in any area of the earth.

JOWAI: Union Minister of State for Water Resources Development, Vincent H Pala inaugurated the Common Facility Centre (CFC) of the Women's Group Handicrafts Multi-purpose Cooperative Society at Madankynsaw (Moo-kyndeng) village in Jaintia Hills on Wednesday.

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Aug. 18: The Orissa government has urged the Centre to deploy Central paramilitary forces in the state, especially to protect sanctuaries and national parks from the left wing extremists.

'It is our responsibility to protect the bio-diversity and forest resources,' said Zilla Panchayat President S N Rajarao.

New Delhi: In a giant leap towards making the Forest Rights Act effective, the environment ministry has informed states that it would not approve any forest clearance proposals till the consent of the gram sabhas has been sought for the projects The move, bound to come as a shocker to the infrastructure project proponents, es pecially the mining lobby, would ensure that the provisions of the Fores

KRISHNAGIRI: A forest watcher was injured in firing by an unidentified gang in the reserve forests near Krishnagiri, bordering Andhra Pradesh, in the early hours of Sunday.